News Lebanon: Israeli Defense Minister Accuses Lebanon Army of Negligence, Dials Up Threats
A week before the Israeli elections, their assorted offensive wars are becoming a particularly important issue, and high ranking figures are attaching themselves to various hawkish narratives, particularly as related to the ongoing invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon. Defense Minister Israel Katz has been at the fore in this…
News Lebanon: Two Killed in South Lebanon, North Israel Explosions as War Continues to Claim Lives
After two people were reported killed over the weekend in southern Lebanon, an addition two people were reported killed today and at least 19 others wounded along both sides of the border, in this case seemingly entirely from unexploded ordinance left there earlier in the war. The death in Lebanon…
News Lebanon: Three years after Issam Abdallah was killed by Israeli forces, occupied areas of southern Lebanon are becoming increasingly inaccessible to the press
Nearly three years after Reuters photojournalist Issam Abdallah was killed in southern Lebanon by an Israeli army strike that also injured six of his colleagues, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu continues to impose increasing restrictions on media professionals’ access to areas it now occupies. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces these restrictions as an obstruction of the right to inform and calls for clarification of the procedures governing journalists' access to these areas.
News Lebanon: EU to Establish Mission to Support Lebanon’s Military and Security Forces
The Council of the European Union approved a three-year mission to advise and train Lebanon’s armed forces and internal security services.
News Lebanon: How October 7 changed Lebanon and Hezbollah’s political reality
Analysts say Hezbollah’s decision on October 8 to join a ‘war of support’ for Gaza changed Lebanon’s political reality.
News Lebanon: Lebanon prime minister warns of vacuum in south as UNIFIL mandate ends
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Friday called for preventing a vacuum in southern Lebanon if no agreement is reached on a new international force.
News Lebanon: Lebanese PM Salam calls Tehran to nominate new ambassador to Lebanon, wants 'new page' in ties
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that Lebanon has paid a heavy price in terms of its security, stability and economy, stressing that Beirut does not want ...
News Lebanon: The new lines of southern Lebanon
The U.N. expanded the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon's mandate 20 years ago to include monitoring adherence to a ceasefire in fighting between Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah — the militant group created in 1982 to counter a second Israeli invasion.
News Lebanon: Lebanon reconstruction costs could exceed $27B: PM Salam
Nawaf Salam says the destruction caused by Israel’s wars since October 2023 has surpassed the state’s capacity to address.
News Lebanon: Lebanon’s students head to classes that double up as shelters for displaced
Froun is littered with rubble from buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes. Local officials say most of the village still has no state-provided water or electricity. This means that as the return to the school year approaches in Lebanon, many of the displaced are unable to return home.
News Lebanon: Israel claims control of Lebanon’s key Ali al-Taher ridge: What that means
Israel this week has claimed to have established operational control over the strategically vital Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, after an extended operation against positions of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
News Lebanon: Months after ceasefire, Israel and Hezbollah battle over a strategic hill in Lebanon
Israel's military says it has taken control of the Ali Taher ridge in Lebanon, despite ongoing clashes with Hezbollah. The area has seen frequent fighting since a ceasefire began over two months ago....
News Lebanon: The dangerous journey home for Christian communities in southern Lebanon
Ain Ebel, Rmeich and Debl, known locally as the “Delta of Resilience”, are the last inhabited Christian towns in Lebanon’s border region. Since fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalated into a full-scale war in 2024, residents have endured deaths, destruction and growing isolation from the rest of the country.
News Lebanon: Lebanon Raises Toll to 4 Dead in Overnight Israeli Strikes
Lebanon on Saturday raised the toll in Israeli strikes on the country's south and east overnight to four killed, with Israel saying it was responding to an attempted Hezbollah attack. Lebanon's health ministry reported four people killed including an 18-year-old woman, and 32 others wounded, including several women and children, in Israeli strikes on several locations on Friday, particularly in the Nabatieh region. An Israeli army statement said its forces struck Hezbollah "terrorists and infrastructure" including "weapon storage facilities".
News Lebanon: Education Cannot Wait Launches Urgent Support to Protect Learning for Crisis-Affected Children in Lebanon
Education Cannot Wait (ECW) today reaffirmed their strong partnership with Lebanon's Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) to protect the right to education for children impacted by the rapidly escalating crisis in Lebanon.
News Lebanon: A Lebanese man held prisoner in Israel is released and handed over to Lebanon
A Lebanese man held prisoner in Israel has been released, marking the first such handover since the latest Israel-Hezbollah conflict began six months ago.
News Lebanon: Lebanon asks Greece to help enforce agreement with Israel
After Greece agrees to Israeli weapons deal, Joseph Aoun asks Athens to help advance US-brokered framework agreement.
News Lebanon: Why has Israel escalated attacks in southern Lebanon despite ceasefire?
Lebanese leaders have condemned the Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon that has killed at least 11 people in the worst attacks since the renewal of a ceasefire was brokered in June by the United ...
