Since relatively early in the current Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, the IDF has made a priority of destroying Lebanese villages en masse. In late June, Defense Minister Israel Katz said that certain Lebanese villages would have to “disappear,” and over the...
After two people were reported killed over the weekend in southern Lebanon, an addition two people were reported killed today and at least 19 others wounded along both sides of the border, in this case seemingly entirely from unexploded ordinance left there earlier in...
Israeli forces carried out a strike against a car inside northwestern Lebanon near the Syrian border, wounding six people. Five of the wounded were Syrian nationals and two of them were women. The sixth person was a Lebanese citizen. The strike took place on the...
Over the course of September, Israel carried out no less than 280 separate incursions into southwest Syria, and they currently hold at least 49 Syrians in detention, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reports. Those detained civilians who are ultimately...
It’s olive harvest season for agriculture-heavy southern Lebanon, and while more than a few olive groves have been destroyed outright by the ongoing Israeli invasion, the ones that remain are active with people trying to harvest the year’s crops. Two people have been...
Among the towns and villages impacted by Israel’s incursions into southwest Syria, few have had more problems than Jabata al-Khashab. The village, in northern Quneitra Governorate, is within the UNDOF demilitarized zone and subsequently is de facto occupied by the...
With Hezbollah squarely in the political opposition, Lebanese officials have been hoping for awhile that the ongoing Israeli invasion would further alienate Hezbollah from the public, as an active combatant force and, at least by Israel’s framing, the reason for the...
The incidents of Israeli forces shooting Syrian civilians inside Syrian territory have continued to grow today, with reports that, after three were shot earlier this week in two separate incidents, a fourth was shot, wounded, and ultimately detained on Wednesday. The...
Israeli ground troops have been conducting more and more infiltration into southwestern Syria, with at least eight such incidents reported in the last 24 hours. The cross-border raids have been done chiefly in Quneitra Governorate, along what was previously a UNDOF...
In the course of his recent speeches, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has laid out the position calling once again for the outright annexation of much of southern Lebanon, saying that territory losses should serve as a “penalty” for Israel’s enemies for...
