Lebanese Druze leader Walid #Jumblatt to Al-Jazeera: There are Lebanese in Washington who are “more Israeli than the Israelis” & some in #Lebanon who don’t consider the south part of the country. Says “we are facing a new map surrounding Israel, but none of us know where its borders are”

More than 1,100 Lebanese have been killed during a ‘ceasefire’ that took effect on April 17 #lebanon

Netanyahu & Israel Katz say they will strike #Beirut’s southern suburbs, following major escalation over weekend in south & forced displacement orders for towns around Sidon, ~40 minutes from Beirut. Yet some media continue to call these acts of war a ‘fragile’ ceasefire #lebanon

‘A site it hasn’t held for 26 years’ - as if it is Israel’s to ‘hold.’ Israel's military presence in #Lebanon is an invasion, its holding of territory is an occupation. Call things by their name

Mohamad Bazzi@mbazzi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

US media outlets are willing to butcher the English language — along with common sense and human decency — to avoid stating a basic fact: Israel is expanding its occupation of southern Lebanon

Israeli officials want to resume bombing Beirut. Meanwhile drones are overhead incessantly buzzing all day, almost everyday, and an Israeli fighter jet just broke the sound barrier (sounds like an explosion)

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo ago

Israeli ministers call for return to ‘high-intensity’ war on Hizbollah ft.trib.al/Ji6oqJs

Lebanon’s Health Ministry releases footage of an Israeli double-tap strike on paramedics today. Ministry says 6 killed including a Syrian child, another half a dozen injured. Death toll since March 2 now stands at 3111, with 9432 wounded #lebanon

More than 3000 ppl have been killed in this war. I wrote about 1 strike on Black Wednesday for @newyorker.com. The terror, pain, loss & also love, esp. of Arab men who are too often dehumanized. It’s a story that, these days, unfolds somewhere in #Lebanon every day www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The Missing Bride of Anqoun

A family’s desperate search after the deadliest day of the war between Hezbollah and Israel.

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There is no ceasefire in #Lebanon or in #Gaza

#lebanon #beirut

Always a pleasure to speak with the inimitable Amy Goodman. #lebanon #beirut

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 4mo ago

"It was 10 minutes of terror, a day that the Lebanese are calling Black Wednesday."

#Lebanon’s ‘white army’ of medicos, first responders & civil defense - more than 55 of whom have been killed in Israeli strikes in recent weeks - are heroes, working in terrifying, trying conditions with limited means to save & serve #beirut

Iranian prez vows to “never forsake” #Lebanon on same day #Beirut’s govt said it - & it alone - will negotiate a ceasefire, angering some who say better chance in regional deal given Beirut govt’s inability to get Israel to comply w previous truce. Other Lebanese say Iran is interfering

This seems to be the most recent update of the death toll in Lebanon following today’s Israeli strikes

A quick recap of the day’s events in #Lebanon for @nymag.com #beirut nymag.com/intelligence...

The Iran War Is Not Over

Scenes from a day of carnage in Beirut.

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‘Israel have encountered ferocious Hezbollah resistance’ – Lebanese journalist says www.channel4.com/news/israel-...

‘Israel have encountered ferocious Hezbollah resistance’ – Lebanese journalist says

We spoke to the journalist and author Rania Abouzeid from Beirut.

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* TEHRAN CONSIDERING STRIKES AGAINST ISRAEL 'AMID ITS VIOLATION OF TEMPORARY CEASEFIRE IN LEBANON' -- IRAN'S FARS NEWS AGENCY CITING UNNAMED OFFICIAL @reuters.com

Urgent call for doctors across #Lebanon to go to hospitals to help. Repeated requests for people to donate blood, all types. Red Cross units from north Lebanon mobilized & headed to #Beirut & south to help. Talk of 100s killed & wounded but no casualty toll from Min of Health yet

How will #Iran respond to Israel undertaking largest simultaneous attacks on Lebanon of the war - about 100 strikes in 10 minutes - on what is supposedly 1st day of a ceasefire that Pakistan said includes #Lebanon? Tehran had warned that ceasefire = Lebanon too or deal is off ⬇️

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

Lebanese Red Cross chief warning of many dead and wounded, asking citizens to clear roads for ambulances. Hospitals are appealing for blood, all types. Strikes hit crowded residential areas in #Beirut. #lebanon

Rania Abouzeid@raniaab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Dozens of simultaneous Israeli airstrikes across #Beirut and in the south, the Bekaa and elsewhere. In Beirut, first responders racing through streets, sirens screaming. Smoke billowing in residential areas. Traffic jams, chaos. no warning ahead of strikes #lebanon

Dozens of simultaneous Israeli airstrikes across #Beirut and in the south, the Bekaa and elsewhere. In Beirut, first responders racing through streets, sirens screaming. Smoke billowing in residential areas. Traffic jams, chaos. no warning ahead of strikes #lebanon

Israel makes clear it will continue war in Lebanon despite fact ceasefire includes #Lebanon. It has already struck an ambulance & now issued an evacuation order. Will/can Trump rein in Netanyahu? Will Iran accept Israeli violations? Will Israel’s belligerence threaten the deal?

Genocidal. Will the world continue to watch and appease a madman, his enablers and donors? Will the US military follow orders to commit monumental war crimes?

Tonight Israel issued forced displacement orders for >40 towns & villages inc. around Sidon, Nabatieh, elsewhere. More than a million Lebanese are already displaced, shelters are at capacity, people are sleeping on streets, in cars. Now a new wave of displacement begins #lebanon

"Hormuz has made the end of American hegemony imaginable. It has also shown that, perhaps for the first time, the Global South possesses the political will and ideas needed to build a new international order.” @mona-ali.bsky.social on Suez, Hormuz, the petrodollar, & what might come next

Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Hormuz oil shock has made it possible to see how American hegemony ends. A brilliant new essay by @mona-ali.bsky.social on the ‘hydrocarbon dollar complex’ and the emergence of a new international order:

The world normalized the abnormal with no consequences & is now seeing the blowback. Iranians say no deal unless it is comprehensive b/c "they don't want to be caught in a #Gaza or #Lebanon situation where there is a ceasefire on paper but US & Israel can attack again whenever they want” #iran

Axios@axios.com · 4mo ago

🚨 NEW: The U.S., Iran and a group of mediators are discussing terms for a potential 45-day ceasefire. Sources said the chances for a deal in the next 48 hours are slim. But this last-ditch effort is the only chance to prevent a dramatic war escalation.

Three UNIFIL peacekeepers killed in south #Lebanon in the last 24 hours, two today and one yesterday

Monday morning and Trump is threatening to commit war crimes by blowing up Iran's power plants, oil wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalination plants).

One Lebanese soldier killed, others wounded in what Lebanese army says was an Israeli attack on a checkpoint near Tyre #lebanon #beirut

Israeli military spokesman advertises operation in south Lebanon launched from occupied Syrian Jabal al-Sheikh: