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...
As UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk visits Beirut, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun declared the country remains committed to the “framework deal” they reached with Israel in recent weeks, but warned that the ongoing Israeli attacks may hinder their ability to meet...
Before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in March, they were still attacking Lebanon on an almost daily basis at any rate. Starting in late January, some of those attacks involved the spraying of concentrated herbicide on Lebanese farmland and other agricultural lands....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a “dramatic shift in policy” in the ongoing invasion of Lebanon, with troops advancing ever-deeper into the country, and reaching points that are as far into Lebanon as they’ve gone in the past 26 years, with the...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has declared that Israel would formally occupy the whole of Lebanese territory south of the Litani River, and will commit to a policy of totally leveling the villages along the border of the occupied territory and northern Israel....
A UN investigation into the violence in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate in July of last year concluded that more than 1,700 people were killed and nearly 200,000 displaced in the course of the fighting and subsequent massacres, and that some of the incidents may amount to...
Fighting between the Syrian military and the Kurdish SDF continues with the government cracking down on perceived SDF loyalists and trying to consolidate gains from the recent offensives against them. Much has been said about the fighting, but less so about the people...
A week and a half ago, the UN Human Rights Office issued a statement reporting that Israel had killed 114 civilians since the beginning of the ceasefire in Lebanon. Today, they updated that number to 127 confirmed civilians, entirely on the basis of a single attack....
After a week of some of the most intensive attacks on Lebanon since the ceasefire was reached in November 2024, the IDF is carrying out a massive ground exercise along the border and continuing to carry out attacks on southern villages. The IDF fired on the town of...
An Israeli drone strike destroyed a car on the road between Jarmaq and Kafr Rumman on Thursday, killing two engineers working for the private Meamar Construction company. One other civilian was reported wounded in the attack. The two were identified as Ahmad Saad and...
