Lebanese president condemns Israeli attack on Msayleh as a ‘blatant aggression’ against civilian infrastructure. Israeli air attacks on a southern Lebanese village have killed one person and wounded seven others, temporarily severing a key route connecting Beirut to the country’s south, in the latest near-daily violation by Israel of theRead More →
United States diplomat Tom Barrack has expressed regret for calling Lebanese journalists “animalistic”, days after his comments stirred outrage across the Middle East. However, in a Thursday interview with social media personality Mario Nawfal, Barrack repeated his call for Lebanese reporters to be “civilised”. He nevertheless conceded he should have beenRead More →
Amnesty said more than 10,000 civilian structures were destroyed by Israel – many of them after the ceasefire. Amnesty International is leading calls for a probe into Israel’s widescale destruction of civilian property in southern Lebanon, saying those actions must be investigated as war crimes. The human rights organisation saidRead More →
This week’s visit to Lebanon of senior Iranian politician Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, is seen as an attempt to smooth any feathers ruffled by rhetoric from Tehran about Hezbollah’s disarmament. In early August, the Lebanese government, under pressure from the United States, announced that itRead More →
Lebanon’s government has announced a timeline for Hezbollah’s disarmament, saying the military would set out a plan to bring all weapons under state authority before the end of 2025. This comes after months of pressure from the United States after Israel’s war on Lebanon killed more than 4,000 people andRead More →
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has said that calls for the Lebanese group’s disarmament serve only Israel, amid pressure from the United States for Beirut to take such steps. “Those who call for submitting arms practically demand submitting them to Israel … We will not submit to Israel,” Qassem said onRead More →
Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon – Fatima Kandeel, 43, and her two sons moved into a new rented apartment in the southern suburbs of Beirut in March. They had been staying with her sister Aida nearby for four months after a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon had stopped the worst, but notRead More →
