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...
UN Security Council Mulls Lebanon Peacekeepers’ Future as Mandate End Approaches
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...
Lebanese Town Reels After Deadly Strikes on Civilian Home
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...
Israeli Airstrikes on South Lebanon Village Kill 12, Including Infant and Paramedic
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....
President Aoun Asks US to Intervene as Israel Kills Another Four Civilians in South 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,...
Flurry of Israeli Strikes in Southern, Eastern Lebanon Kill 5, Wound 24
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...
First of Five Lebanese Civilians Released by Israel After Nearly a Year in Detention
As the US-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks get underway for September, a new deal has been reached, which US officials are framing as a “good faith measure” and what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling an “exchange,” five Lebanese civilians captured by...
One Killed as Israeli Forces Cross Yellow Line Deeper Into Southern Lebanon
Early on in the March invasion of Lebanon, Israel defined a new boundary called the Yellow Line, south of which their operations were meant to be confined. This included a substantial amount of southern Lebanon, and led to an increasingly protracted occupation, but...
Lebanese Speaker Threatens Legal Action as Israel Continues to Attack South
Israel continues to carry out attacks across southern Lebanon, with artillery shelling reported in Mansouri and Zawtar al-Shariya and civilian homes being destroyed in multiple occupied municipalities. Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri issued a statement warning...
Israel Continues to Present Lebanon as a Long-Term War as Attacks Continues
Israeli attacks continued apace in southern Lebanon, with shelling reported overnight in Mansouri and a number of other strikes reported against Houla. Powerful explosions were similarly reported in Marjayoun and Nabatieh Districts, and the Marjayoun ones were...


