Israel continues to carry out attacks on southern Lebanon in violation of the November ceasefire, and attacks Wednesday and overnight into Thursday left at least five people dead and 17 others wounded, four of the wounded were children. The strikes began earlier on...
The UNIFIL reported that on Tuesday morning, near the Lebanese village of Marwahin, Israeli drones approached their peacekeepers and dropped stun grenades within 20 meters of them. The IDF confirmed the incident. The incident has been described by UN officials as “one...
On the day that the Lebanese government is expected to release its plan to fully disarm Hezbollah, Israel carried out yet more attacks against southern Lebanon, targeting the Ali al-Taher and al-Dabsheh forests near Nabatieh al-Fawqa, sparking major fires which civil...
US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack continues to make headlines in Lebanon. Yesterday, it was for lambasting Lebanese journalists as “animalistic” at a press conference in Beirut, and today it was during his planned tour of southern Lebanon. Barrack helicoptered into...
US envoy Tom Barrack has had more than a few unusual exchanges in the course of his visits to Lebanon, but today seemed to spark a higher level of annoyance among the locals by lashing out at the press conference he was attending and berating the reporters as...
Last week, US officials requested that Israel stop attacking Lebanon, as is required under the November ceasefire. It appears they’re not doing that, but beyond previously being involved in a proposal to create a depopulated “Trump zone” in southern Lebanon, Israel is...
On Thursday, Israel launched a number of airstrikes against southern Lebanon. As they so often do, the IDF claimed they were attacking “Hezbollah infrastructure” in the attacks, a claim reported without scrutiny by Israeli media outlets. The reports suggest that the...
Last month, US envoy Tom Barrack insisted the US had no business asking Israel to stop attacking Lebanon. In keeping with Barrack’s ongoing inconsistency, he today insisted that Israel should comply with the ceasefire, withdraw from Lebanon and stop attacking them. “I...
Tensions are mounting over the weekend as Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem reiterated his position that Hezbollah will not disarm as ordered by the government, accusing the government of “handing” the nation to Israel with a disarmament order that doesn’t necessarily...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri met with visiting Iranian National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani today, and it was something of an awkward exchange, leading to Aoun warning Larijani that no group within Lebanon is allowed to bear arms...
