في اليوم الخامس والعشرين لوقف إطلاق النار المزعوم، واصل جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي اعتداءاته على جنوب لبنان، وارتكب جريمة حرب جديدة باستهداف طواقم الإسعاف، فقتل عنصرَين من الدفاع المدني اللبناني باستهداف مباشر في النبطية. وأفادت وزارة الصحة عن ارتفاع حصيلة الشهداء إلى 2,882 شهيداً و8,768 جريحاً، من بدء العدوان في 2 آذار 2026.
Today marks four years since my aunt, Shireen Abu Akleh, was killed by an Israeli sniper in Jenin.
An iconic journalist, and one of the most empathetic and sweetest people. This is who they killed. She loved life, but they stole hers from her.
I wrote this about the Taif Accord in history & its afterlives, we may be in a similar place today. Wars end when people are exhausted enough to accept any resolution, even one that rein-scribes the logic of war & its actors.Wars do not end with justice, they end with desperation
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, of Al Akhbar, was just killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. As a journalist - and as a human being - who has spent her life looking at journalists as compasses for truth, there are no words left to express the grief that I feel having watched Arab journalists - from Gaza to Lebanon - get targeted and killed with such impunity and permission. A barbaric regime governs this world.
Abd texted last night to say he had finally crossed the border into Syria and was able to bury his sister, mother and other relatives. It was his first time back in Syria since he fled in 2011 as a child. He narrowly survived the bombardment on Wednesday.
The Liberal tent is so big it has room for a Conservative who voted against banning conversion therapy, who promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID, and who said the military should break up Indigenous railway protests while she ran for CPC leader before being disqualified.
💢🇱🇧 BREAKING | Israel launched 100 strikes across Lebanon in 10 minutes Wednesday afternoon, targeting Beirut, the south, and the Bekaa Valley — hours after a ceasefire was announced and declared “effective immediately” by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Sounds of ambulances filled the streets of Beirut from 3 PM local time. The Lebanese Red Cross head Georges Kettaneh told LBCI: “The wounded and casualties are numerous. We are doing everything we can to save them.” Several Beirut hospitals issued urgent blood donation appeals.
Neighborhoods struck in Beirut without prior warning included Salim Slem, Borj Abi Haidar, Corniche al-Mazraa, Bashoura, and the southern suburbs. Kaifoun and Bshamoun, east of Beirut, were also hit, according to L’Orient Today.
Across southern Lebanon, the cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Nabatieh were struck alongside villages including Adloun, Bazourieh, al-Abbassieh, Zefta, Sir al-Gharbieh, Ansar, and Ain Baal. In Sidon, a strike on the al-Zahraa complex wounded Al Manar correspondent Amin Shumer.
In the eastern Bekaa Valley, strikes hit Baalbek and villages including Hermel, Shemstar, al-Karak, al-Ferzel, Boudai, and Sohmor. Several people were wounded in Hermel. Two people were killed when a truck was struck between Hasbaya and Maymas.
The Amal Movement confirmed six people killed in an earlier strike on Srifa, a village in southern Lebanon near the coastal city of Tyre.
In Mansouri — another southern village along the Mediterranean coast — 13 residents, including the village mukhtar, lost contact after returning home following the ceasefire announcement, as the town came under repeated shelling.
Netanyahu has stated the ceasefire does not cover Lebanon, even as Hezbollah halted fire on northern Israel and invading ground troops, according to Reuters. Drop Site correspondent Lylla Younes reported warplanes back in the sky over Beirut at 8 AM local time, with ambulances running nonstop and people screaming in the streets.
Since 1948, no other state in the Middle East:
- destroyed more civilian infrastructure than Israel.
- destroyed and displaced more communities than Israel.
- occupied lands of several nations longer than Israel.
- initiated more wars than Israel
CNN interviewed Qusai Abu al-Kebash, a 29-year-old Palestinian shepherd, who was sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Khirbet Humsa.
He told @JDiamond1 that settlers zip-tied his genitals, paraded him through the village while beating him, threatened to rape women, assaulted children, and stole hundreds of his sheep.
The reluctance of the EU to join the war against Iran might indicate they are receiving different intelligence than the US. There is no military, symbolic, or political victory that can come from this war for the US or its allies
Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake.
The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure.
The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America.
I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.
- Evacuating the entirety of Tyre/Sour close to midnight
- Surprise bombing Dahyeh and densely-populated Zkak Blat, Central Beirut at 1:30am
Israel seemingly won't rest until half of the population is displaced.
What happened in Beirut today was pure evil (and I usually refrain from using words with religious connotations). Western media won’t pick up on it, of course. Israeli leaflets basically explicitly threatened the Lebanese: if you don’t go down into the streets and mount an insurrection and disarm Hizbullah with your own hands, we shall inflict a genocide on you just like the one we inflicted on Gaza (in the flyer they called the genocide a “stunning success”).
Possibly an unpopular view. I often get requests from journals to review papers on the mental health impact of the genocide in Gaza. Some rely on data collected by research assistants on the ground whose safety could not be guaranteed and whose names don't appear anywhere. 🧵 1/8
Ramlet al Bayda beach is the least Hezbollah bastion you could imagine, and one obvious place where hopeless displaced people with nowhere to go would go to to rest their head on the ground and try to sleep for a few hours. It was just bombed now.
In the past hour, Israel launched the loudest, most aggressive airstrikes in the past few days. In parallel, it's openly threatening, via the US, to target Lebanon's national infrastructure.
All signs signal a large massacre coming soon, with a clear US greenlight.