Israel attacking civilian targets without warning has become almost de rigueur in Lebanon these days. Overnight, however, the surprise attacks reached a new level, with Israel leveling an 8-storey apartment building in Central Beirut with a bunker buster bomb. The...
In a 19-3 vote with 12 abstentions, the IAEA agreed to rebuke Iran for a “lack of cooperation.” The vote was driven by the US, UK, and their allies. Russia and China both voted against the resolution, along with Burkina Faso. The timing of the decision was...
There are still hopes for a ceasefire in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, but the death toll continues to rise as large numbers of airstrikes continue across that nation. Nowhere is this more starkly apparent than in eastern Lebanon, in the vicinity of the city of...
Yesterday, Israel attacked the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. The initial death toll was 36, making it already one of the deadliest strikes in years. That toll has only continued to soar as rescue efforts continue, however, and the latest figure is at least 108 were...
In one of the deadliest Israeli attacks on Syria in over a year, Israeli warplanes attacked the ancient city of Palmyra today. Syrian state media has reported so far that 36 were killed and at least 50 were wounded in the strike. The airstrikes hit residential...
Despite not being involved in the ongoing Israeli invasion, more and more Lebanese soldiers are being killed in Israeli airstrikes, particularly in Southern Lebanon. Today, an Israeli airstrike targeted an army post in the southern village of Sarafand. At least three...
While hope remains for a ceasefire in Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, clashes continue in the country’s south. Today, an Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade was reported killed and three others seriously wounded in a Hezbollah drone strike. The incident was said to...
Israel is continuing to increase airstrikes against various neighborhoods of the Lebanese capital city of Beirut. Today, those strikes centered on the densely populated working-class quarter of Zoa al-Blat. This attack hit near al-Zahra Husseini a, a Shi’ite religious...
Israel has repeatedly insisted that they are at war with Hezbollah, not Lebanon, and that they have not been deliberately targeting Lebanese military in the course of their invasion of Lebanon. Despite those protestations, they keep hitting Lebanese military targets....
The metro area around Beirut, particularly the southern suburbs, has been the focus of Israeli near-daily strikes for weeks now. Today, an Israeli airstrike hit central Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, in the Ras al-Nabaa District. The strike targeted a building belonging...
