This weekend once again saw Israel conducting a growing number of operations against southwest Syria, pointing to yet further escalation and leading to the capture of multiple locals in Quneitra Governorate. The detentions happened Thursday night into Friday, with an...
Following weeks of offensives against the Ali al-Taher Ridge, Israeli forces carried out massive underground detonations against what they say were tunnels belonging to Hezbollah. The detonations were said to involve 1,000 tonnes of explosives, and created a...
Southern Lebanon had a substantial population before the March Israeli invasion and occupation, but it wasn’t a heavily urbanized area. Rather, the economy is, or at least was, heavily built around agriculture, and the extent of the damage to the farmland over the...
UN Commissioner Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has issued a new report to the UN Human Rights Council related to Israeli military operations in southwest Syria, warning that the operations are increasingly impacting Syrian civilians in ways that could amount to war crimes under...
Pre-dawn strikes hit several towns and villages across southern Lebanon, leading UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to express alarm about the ongoing Israeli escalation and call for Israel to withdraw from the occupied Lebanese territory. An Israeli drone strike...
The future of the UN Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) is up in the air as the UN Security Council is poised to start debating the possibility to extending its mandate yet again. The mandate was last extended in 2025, supposedly for the final time, and the US and...
Whether you consider it a town or a village, Kfar Roumine was a modest place before the Israeli invasion in March. Some 1,400 people lived there at the time. Forced displacement and persistent attacks, including Monday’s airstrike that killed over a dozen people, have...
Two Israeli soldiers were wounded overnight in fighting with a Hezbollah member near Beaufort Castle. The soldiers were taken to the hospital, and the Hezbollah attacker was killed. Israel then attacked the residential area of Kfar Roumine, also in southern Lebanon....
Following a flurry of Israeli strikes overnight Friday into Saturday killing at least five people in southern Lebanon, Israeli forces continued attacks into Sunday, destroying a hospital in Nabatieh and carrying out strikes that killed an additional four civilians,...
Beginning late Friday evening, Israel launched a flurry of new airstrikes against targets in southern and eastern Lebanon, including a major attack near Tyre and another in the Bekaa Valley. All told, at least five people were killed and 24 others wounded. The attacks...
