Vahakn Tchelderian

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil has died from wounds sustained in an Israeli strike earlier this month, family and friends say.

For more than 20 years she was a dedicated & stubborn protector of Lebanon’s sea turtles.

She had stayed at her home on the beach in Mansouri, southern Lebanon, despite the war.

I had the privilege of interviewing her in 2017 when she was resisting the construction of a beach resort backed by powerful local players.

[BlertaAliko @BlertaAliko]

I went Tyre few days ago and the level of destruction was massive! The civilians are paying the heaviest price as hostilities intensify in the South 🇱🇧. Eid still holds meaning of love, compassion and solidarity filled with hope for better days ahead! Blessed Eid al-Adha!

[كريم صفي الدين - Karim Safieddine @safieddine00]

The Lebanese people - all of us - should be ashamed of themselves for letting the Kafala system go for this long.

[Hassan Kanj - حسن كنج @Hassankanj_]

الجنوب، قراه ومنازله، يُمحى من قبل إسرائيل. بيت ستي كان دوره اليوم. اللي عم يصير بالجنوب بيتخطى الحرب، محو وتهجير قسري واحتلال. راحت مع البيت ذكريات وذاكرة فيها جزء من الطفولة. أيام ما بقا ترجع، كان البيت حافظها ومخلّيها بذاكرتنا.

عنف وإجرام إسرائيل لا حدود لهم.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

The WSJ report that Israel built a clandestine military base in Iraq's western desert before the air war against Iran began. It housed special forces, search-and-rescue teams, and served as a forward logistics hub for the air campaign roughly 1,000 miles from home. The U.S. knew about the base. Iraq did not.

1) In early March, a local shepherd spotted unusual helicopter activity and alerted the Iraqi military. Iraqi troops drove out at dawn in Humvees to investigate on their own territory.

2) Israel struck them with airstrikes, killing one Iraqi soldier and wounding two others, to prevent the base from being discovered.

3) Iraq condemned the attack and filed a complaint with the UN, attributing it to the U.S. The U.S. wasn't involved but didn't correct the record.

4) Iraq sent elite Counter Terrorism units to search the area afterward. They found evidence of military presence but couldn't identify whose it was.

In sum, Israel operated a military installation on the sovereign territory of a country it is not at war with, without permission or coordination. When that country's soldiers investigated activity on their own soil, Israel used lethal force against them to protect the secret. This is nothing short of an act of war against Iraq and shows that Israel disregards the sovereignty of all nations.

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

Bonkers story:

Israel built a base inside Iraq just before the war with Iran.

When Iraqi troops investigated, Israel launched air strikes against them.

All with US knowledge. https://t.co/lZZdCNT6fN

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

This is a photo of the same area before it was wiped out by the Israeli army.

[Omar El Fares 🇵🇸 عُمَر الفارس @3lfares]

You’re genuinely a piece of shit

[Romy🦢 @romytweeting]

1 time: isolated incident
2 times: coincidence
3+times: pattern
Repeated over time despite awareness/consequences: mentality/culture/system

Israeli society has a serious anti-Christian problem
What we’re seeing in Leb is only the tip of the iceberg
Ask christians in the holyland

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Following Israel's "ceasefire", the number of wounded children being referred to the American University of Beirut's, Pediatric War Injuries Program, has increased and the severity of their injuries has increased. The majority of the wounded children now need Intensive Care.

[Hiram T. Chehab @hiramtchehab]

I wonder how many times this happened between a Lebanese grandpa and a grandson since 1860

[Tala Ramadan @TalaRamadan]

BEIRUT, April 29 (Reuters) - More than 1 million people in Lebanon are expected to face a food insecurity crisis in the months ahead as a result of renewed conflict and mass displacement, a global hunger monitor said on Wednesday.

[Gino Raidy @GinoRaidy]

Barbaric

[كريم صفي الدين - Karim Safieddine @safieddine00]

Israel has killed more than 50 people in Lebanon in less than two weeks since the "ceasefire".

[Younis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi]

Amwaj Albayyada, South Lebanon |

Israeli troops blows up the popular Al-Safina, or “The Boat,” restaurant.

The restaurant opened a decade ago as part of a project aimed at boosting tourism in southern Lebanon 1/2

[Hana Katana ⚔️😷🏴🏳️‍🌈 🍉 THEY/THEM @KatanaSpeaks]

$10,000,000.

I understand that when a crime is committed NDA's don't hold up in court, but I was coerced into sign a document saying that I wasn't raped immediately after I got out of the bathroom after Sage the Gemini raped me at Chris Brown's home.

My rape was ORGANIZED.

[كريم صفي الدين - Karim Safieddine @safieddine00]

Lebanon is not made "great again" by switching geopolitical axes and joining a pro-Israel alignment after two years of mass murder. This is just reinventing new ways to keep Lebanon in its place as a subservient country with no plan, power, direction, resources, or innovation.

[Woofers @NotWoofers]

The IDF are aiming to make southern Lebanon uninhabitable. They’re removing power and water generation capacity. This is the same town where the statue of Christ was desecrated.

[Mohammad El Sahily - محمد الساحلي @moesahily]

The people of Debel have refused the IDF’s photo op lie, and have instead accepted a replacement statue from Italy’s UNIFIL contingent.

[Mohamad Bazzi @BazziNYU]

“The Nakba of South Lebanon” — front page of today’s @LOrientLeJour