In an interview with Israel’s Channel 7 TV, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reported that his son has asked him not to finish destroying Lebanon before he has the opportunity to get involved and do some destroying of his own. The hawkish Smotrich said he...
Overnight, the Lebanese town of Habboush was targeted in Israeli airstrikes, causing significant damage. In the morning, Israeli artillery was actively shelling the town, causing even more destruction in residential and commercial parts of town. Habboush is just one...
Heavy fighting reportedly erupted in the area of Deir Seryan, on the border between Israel and Lebanon and well inside the Israeli occupied “Yellow Line” area of southern Lebanon. Israel reportedly advanced troops into the town and Hezbollah attacked them. Details are...
Scores of people, including a number of women and children, have been killed over the course of the weekend in southern Lebanon, as Israeli strikes continue to escalate across the region, and numbers from the Lebanese Health Ministry show the overall death toll of the...
The Israeli military attacked and seriously damaged a convent in the southern Lebanese town of Yaroun, leading to international condemnation from Christian groups. The convent belonged to the Greek Catholic order “Basilian Salvatorian Sisters,” and was known for...
With US and Israeli officials constantly insisting everything that is happening in southern Lebanon is Hezbollah’s fault, there was an underlying assumption that there would be a public backlash against Hezbollah as locals lives got progressively worse. While there...
A flurry of Israeli strikes on Thursday has killed at least 32 people in the areas around Lebanon’s Nabatieh District, including women and children, and wounded dozens of others. The casualties largely came from Israeli attacks on residential buildings in southern...
At least 16 people were killed in the past 24 hours in various Israeli strikes, including a Lebanese soldier, a family of five, and three emergency workers trying to rescue the wounded in an attack on the town of Majdal Zoun. The family of five were identified as the...
While Israel’s public narrative on its war in Lebanon centers around the idea of defending northern Israel from Hezbollah rocket fire, commanders on the ground have told Israeli media that in practice the sole objective is to destroy Shi’ite villages in the occupied...
The ceasefire and its extension seem to be doing very little to stop the firing in southern Lebanon, and the Lebanese Health Ministry has raised the death toll since the start of the Israeli invasion to 2,534 killed and 7,863 others wounded. The front continues to...
