The repeated blasts in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Israel has been carrying out air strikes this week, have driven Zeina Nazha and her young daughter to camp on a city beach, seeking safety from the war in Lebanon. She and some others from those suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, are sleeping on blankets either under the open … Read more
Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon-based Hezbollah since 1992, was killed in a massive Israeli airstrike on Friday. In the same airstrikes, the Israeli army also killed Abbas Nilforoushan, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s deputy commander in Beirut. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday threatened retaliation, saying “this horrible crime committed by the Zionist regime [Israel] … Read more
Israel reverts to its wartime playbook as it manufactures consent for all-out war on Lebanon. In the past couple of weeks, the low-intensity war that Israel and Hezbollah have been fighting across the Lebanon-Israel border for a year has metastasised. Thousands of Lebanese have been forced from their homes as Israeli bombardment has intensified. More … Read more
Palestinian authorities demand answers after Israel sent a truck containing 88 decomposed bodies to Gaza. Since October 7, Israeli forces have returned hundreds of bodies to Gaza, many decomposed and unidentifiable. But on Wednesday, Palestinian authorities refused to accept a container with at least 88 corpses – until Israel provides full data with the victims’ … Read more
Israel’s war on Gaza has ground its vital economic sectors to a halt. Almost a year into the war on Gaza, Israel’s economy is facing its deepest decline in years. Military spending is ballooning, borrowing is rocketing and revenues are drying up. International trust in its economy is waning. Thousands of highly educated and skilled … Read more
Israel’s military assault on Lebanon is the most intense in decades. After nearly a year of exchanging fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israeli military has expanded its offensive. In an intense campaign of air attacks, it targeted 1,600 sites on Monday alone. Israel said it was hitting Hezbollah military positions, but homes and buildings … Read more
Israel targets top Hezbollah commander in air raid on Beirut suburb that kills 12 people and wounds 66. Israel has hit a residential area in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut in an attempted assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil. The Israeli military says it “eliminated” Aqil on Friday, but Hezbollah has yet … Read more
Hamas says it is able to keep fighting the Israeli army in Gaza, despite its losses. Israel’s war on Gaza has raged for nearly a year, with more than 41,000 people killed in the Palestinian territory. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant says Hamas is effectively dismantled as a fighting force. However, the group has refuted … Read more
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked a move by its key ally. The United Kingdom’s government says it will stop some of its arms exports to Israel, fearing the use of certain weapons could break international law. Israel’s prime minister called the move “shameful” and said it will help Hamas, the Palestinian group that … Read more
Demonstrators demand a ceasefire deal as more captives are killed in Gaza. Huge demonstrations took place in Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – after the bodies of six Israeli captives were found in southern Gaza. The deaths have intensified public anger and political pressure on the Israeli leader. So, what will this mean for … Read more