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...
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...
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...
Closed-door meetings this weekend among UN Security Council members showed strong support for extending the mandate for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers, whose mandate is scheduled to expire at the end of the year. Initially established in 1978,...
Saja Moussa Sharara was married on Tuesday and lived in a house in the village of Arabsalim, a Shi’ite majority village in the southern part of Lebanon’s Nabatieh District. Thursday morning she was killed when an Israeli airstrike attacked her home. Sharara was killed...
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued a statement expressing alarm regarding the killing and displacement of Lebanese civilians during the Israeli invasion, and particularly the Israeli rhetoric they viewed as aimed at dehumanizing...
Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research (NCSR) has issued a report that some 160 km² of land in southern Lebanon have been systematically burned by Israeli activity since 2023. This includes large amounts of farmland, but what is being called a “scorched...
“Systematic not selective.” That’s how UNIFIL spokesperson Kandice Ardiel described the Israeli operations to destroy civilian infrastructure and residences across southern Lebanon, during her interview Monday evening on UN Radio. Ardiel said the UNIFIL peacekeepers...
Two 17-year-old civilians, identified as Hussein Shakroun and Ahmad Roumani, were killed yesterday in the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Roumine when an Israeli drone attacked the vehicle on which they were riding. The attack happened on Sunday, but the bodies weren’t...
in recent weeks, the Israeli military is using a growing number of incendiary munitions in its attacks on southern Lebanon, including the use of white phosphorus in and around populated areas, which is potentially in violation of international law. Israel has been...
