The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued a statement expressing alarm regarding the killing and displacement of Lebanese civilians during the Israeli invasion, and particularly the Israeli rhetoric they viewed as aimed at dehumanizing...
Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research (NCSR) has issued a report that some 160 km² of land in southern Lebanon have been systematically burned by Israeli activity since 2023. This includes large amounts of farmland, but what is being called a “scorched...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz visited Mount Hermon, inside what was once the UNDOF-controlled “demilitarized zone” in southwest Syria, but which is presently presented as a “buffer zone” entirely under Israeli military occupation. That occupation, according to...
“Systematic not selective.” That’s how UNIFIL spokesperson Kandice Ardiel described the Israeli operations to destroy civilian infrastructure and residences across southern Lebanon, during her interview Monday evening on UN Radio. Ardiel said the UNIFIL peacekeepers...
Two 17-year-old civilians, identified as Hussein Shakroun and Ahmad Roumani, were killed yesterday in the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Roumine when an Israeli drone attacked the vehicle on which they were riding. The attack happened on Sunday, but the bodies weren’t...
in recent weeks, the Israeli military is using a growing number of incendiary munitions in its attacks on southern Lebanon, including the use of white phosphorus in and around populated areas, which is potentially in violation of international law. Israel has been...
A week after ordering the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to prepare for a “long-term stay” in occupied southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz has now also ordered them to escalate the rate at which they’re destroying what is being framed as “Hezbollah...
With growing numbers of incursions reported by Israeli forces into southwest Syria, the latest incidents are noteworthy both for being unusual in size and in one case for going far deeper into Syria than previous operations. Dozens of Israeli soldiers, supported by at...
Two people were killed today in the southern Lebanese town of Mayfadoun when they came upon unexploded ordinance left behind in a recent Israeli operation against the area. This brought the number of confirmed deaths in this year’s invasion of Lebanon to 4,346, with...
Though the various “ceasefire” agreements between the Israel and Lebanon governments never really were at the point where anyone said it was safe for the 1.5 million displaced civilians to attempt to return home, the lack of provisions for the long-term displacement...
