Thursday’s announcement of the ceasefire in Lebanon brought some relief to the 20% of Lebanon’s population that is currently displaced by the conflict. Whether or not they’ll actually be able to return home is another matter entirely. In the hours leading up to...
Israeli officials have been saying they intended to apply a Gaza Strip model to the invasion of Lebanon, but the extent of the destruction inflicted on the southern part of Lebanon in the first month and a half of the war is even bigger than initially feared. New...
While the military offensives against Lebanon continue apace, Israeli officials are claiming large but increasingly non-credible numbers of Hezbollah among the slain in their war, with officials saying 200 Hezbollah targets were hit in the past 24 hours, and Army...
Tuesday’s direct talks between Israel and Lebanon were held with a lot more fanfare than they had consequence, and ended without a meaningful deal being agreed, and with Israel not even really slowing their attacks while the conversations were ongoing, let alone...
Heavy fighting continued to rage in southern Lebanon overnight, and the Israeli command reported they’d sustained a number of casualties, with one soldier was killed and three wounded during a battle when their Humvee flipped over. The slain soldier was identified as...
Direct, face-to-face talks were held today between Israeli and Lebanese Ambassadors. The talks are historic, at least in the sense that direct talks between the two nations are exceedingly rare, but little was expected of them, and even less seems to have come out of...
The UNIFIL peacekeepers reported that one of their vehicles sustained significant damage when an Israeli Merkava battle tank twice rammed into it on the road in Bayada, southern Lebanon. The Israeli soldiers were blockading a road regularly used by the UNIFIL for...
Israeli ground troops launched an invasion of the Lebanese border town of Bint Jbeil today, initially surrounding the town and inundating it with artillery fire before advancing deeper in. Hezbollah fighters are reportedly within the town resisting the advance....
The Lebanese Health Ministry has reported this weekend that the death toll in the escalation of Israel's war on Lebanon has passed 2,000 killed. The latest figure was that the war has killed 2,020 Lebanese, including 248 women, 165 children, and at least 85 civilian...
An Israeli strike on a funeral in the Tyre district of Abbasiyeh killed four people from the same family over the weekend, including infant Taleen Saeed, who was under two years old and was there for her father’s funeral. Saeed’s father was killed on Wednesday, during...
