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Southern Front: Phosphorus Shells, Fires, and Hezb Retaliation

The southern front was cautiously calm on Thursday afternoon, following heavy Israeli bombardment from dawn onward. [readmore url="https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/lebanon/283981"] Late in the day, a large fire broke out in Wadi Hamoul, on the outskirts of Naqoura in the caza of Tyre, and forest fires flared up in Yaroun after the Israeli Army fired ...

Bou Assi : Strategic Decisions Are Under Iranian Influence

Member of the "Strong Republic" bloc, MP Pierre Bou Assi, shared his insights on Lebanon’s current situation, addressing the nation's challenges. Bou Assi expressed concern for all Lebanese sects, noting a prevailing sense of existential peril. Many Lebanese feel excluded from a meaningful participation in the nation's affairs, with the ...

Netanyahu Asserts 'Readiness' for War with Hezbollah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Wednesday his "readiness for any scenario" amid the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah and its backer, Iran, against the backdrop of the Gaza war. United States President Joe Biden is expected to urge Netanyahu to ease his demands in the ceasefire deal in a phone call later tonight, an unnamed ...

Iran Shuts German Cultural Centers

Iran shut two offices linked to Germany's government on Tuesday, the judiciary said, nearly a month after the closure of a religious center in Germany over ties to the Islamic republic. "Two branches of illegal centers affiliated with the German government, which violated Iran laws and committed numerous illegal acts and extensive financial ...

Southern Lebanon: 20 New Rockets Launched on the Western Galilee

Tensions continued unabated on Tuesday afternoon between Hezbollah and Israel, as Israeli media reported the launch of "20 new rockets from southern Lebanon towards the western Galilee," after a very turbulent morning between the two sides in which Hezbollah had already fired 55 rockets in retaliation for Israel's nighttime strikes. Hezbollah ...

Stop Counting… Senseless Census

  In recent days, a number of Hezbollah sympathizers have impertinently mentioned demographics in Lebanon, with the sole purpose of embarrassing Christians in unprecedented ways. In this context, the Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al Akhbar published inaccurate figures, thereby stating that Lebanese Christians now make up less than 20% of ...

Hezb Retaliates After Tense Night

A new round of escalation began after an intense night of Israeli airstrikes that hit deep inside Lebanon. Hezbollah launched several rocket salvos at Israeli army positions in the annexed Golan Heights on Tuesday "in response" to Israeli strikes on Lebanon the previous day. Hezbollah fighters launched "intense rocket barrages" at two Israeli ...

Southern Front: One Israeli Soldier Killed and Others Wounded

The Israeli army announced on Monday the death of "an Israeli soldier killed this morning in a Hezbollah drone attack in western Galilee". According to the Israeli army, "five explosive-laden drones were launched from Lebanon during the attack, three of which were intercepted by the Iron Dome". The other two drones fell near Gesher HaZiv and the ...

Reality and Illusion

The people of the Middle East, particularly Lebanese, Israelis, Palestinians, and their near neighbors are understandably living on a knife's edge of uncertainty about what's next ever since the killing of Ismael Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, 2024. It was a humiliation for the Iranians to have an honored terrorist guest assassinated in a ...

Early Morning Israeli Raids on South Lebanon: Two Dead in Hula

Heavy fighting continues on Monday morning on the Lebanese southern border as cross border exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah are not letting up. An Israeli raid on Hula early on Monday morning led to the death of two people. The Israeli army opened fire with heavy machine guns at the forests adjacent to the Blue Line on the outskirts of the ...

Israeli Drone Targets Motorcycle, Kills One in Shebaa

A fighter in the ranks of the Hezbollah-affiliated Saraya Al Muqawama (Resistance Brigades), Fadi Kassem Kanaan, was killed Sunday morning in an Israeli drone attack targeting a motorcycle in the Jannam area, on the outskirts of the town of Shebaa, in the Hasbaya district in southern Lebanon. The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the ...

The Last to Leave Switches the Lights Off...

This sentence was once scrawled along the road to Buenos Aires airport. At that time, amid a crisis, Argentina was experiencing a massive wave of emigration. In Lebanon, innovation is in full swing. While the last Lebanese hasn't quite left yet (but we’re getting there), the power has been shut off. Today, the state’s electricity, or ...