Today marks 6 years since the Beirut Port Explosion, one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions. It killed +218 people, injured +7,000, and displaced+300,000 from their homes. Holding in my heart those whose lives were never the same and uplifting their calls for justice.🤍

The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy@timep.bsky.social · 2d ago

Six years since the Beirut Port Explosion, we stand with the people of Lebanon and remember the lives lost, the thousands injured, and the families impacted. Today, we amplify the calls of those gathering on the ground to renew their calls for accountability and justice.

BREAKING: The death toll climbs to 67 in Spain’s Ceuta border crisis with Morocco, the Spanish government said Saturday.

Death toll in Spain-Morocco border crisis in Ceuta reaches 67

The Spanish government reports that the death toll in the Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67.

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#KeinVergessen Armela Segashi, Can Leyla, Dijamant Zabërgja, Guiliano Kollmann, Hüseyin Dayıcık, Roberto Rafael, Sabine S., Selçuk Kılıç und Sevda Dağ wurden am 22.7.16 in München von einem rechtsterroristischen Täter ermordet: am 5. Jahrestag von Utøya und Oslo. muenchen-erinnern.de/2026/06/25/g...

It's out! The full "Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World" is available open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...

Es ist zum kotzen. Rechte und Rechtsradikale „feiern“ im Europaparlament das Abschiebegesetz mit Sprechchören: „Send them back“. E Mittendrin: Manfred Weber.

It’s like we are actively looking at dystopian novels for inspiration

On March 2, Malika's mother was killed by an Israeli strike. Her last act alive was using her body to protect 4yo Malika, who sustained burns, shrapnel to her face, and damage to her eye. I wrote about how this war is impacting children in Lebanon www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Lebanon’s children face physical, psychological trauma amid Israel’s war

Experts warn of lasting trauma for Lebanon's children as war continues to shatter their sense of safety.

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This is a truly remarkable event in that Iran is initiating attack on Israel in response to an Israeli attack on Lebanon. Unprecedented development.

Shibley Telhami@stelhami.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After Israel attacks Beirut, Iran launches multiple rounds of missile strikes at Northern Israel.

Israel continues to strike southern Lebanon despite Trump’s effort to reach a ceasefire: Warplanes carry out dozens of airstrikes and Israeli army issues evacuation warning for city of Nabatiyeh www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Israel strikes southern Lebanon despite Trump’s effort to shore up ceasefire

Warplanes carry out dozens of airstrikes and Israeli army issues evacuation warning for city of Nabatiyeh

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Israel has now launched its largest invasion of Lebanon since it withdrew from the country in 2000, ICYMI

Israeli soldiers reach Nabatieh, one of southern Lebanon’s biggest cities

Israel’s military has advanced beyond Lebanon's Litani River for the first time since 2006.

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During her Class Day speech at Harvard University Medical School, graduate Leen Ezzedine paid tribute to the “youth of Dahiyeh, the sons of Nabatieh and the people of Tyre,” as well as Palestinians and Lebanese, praising their resilience amid Israeli occupation and the genocide in Gaza.

Israel is targeting and killing healthcare workers in Lebanon nearly every day. Since March 2nd, Israeli attacks have killed 124 health care workers. The total death toll in Lebanon now stands at 3,185. — Lebanese Ministry of Health

At dawn on Sunday, Israeli forces carried out a wave of airstrikes on Nabatieh, destroying restaurants and shops, including Rammal Original and a fuel station. The city’s Civil Defense center was also struck and completely destroyed. 🧵

In der Stimmungsmache gegen die alljährliche Demonstration zum #Nakba-Gedenktag wiederholt der @tagesspiegel.de die Erzählung des durch Demo-Teilnehmer*innen verletzten Polizisten in einer falschen Tatsachenbehauptung: www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei... www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

There is no ceasefire in #Lebanon or in #Gaza

An entire family was killed today in an Israeli strike in Salsakiyeh, southern Lebanon.

Weizsäcker bereitete den Weg hin zu einer Sicht, in der viele ihre Ahnen als Gegner des NS wähnen. Eine (selbst-)kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den strukturellen Ursachen des Nationalsozialismus wurde damit eher behindert. Das wirkt bis heute nach.

Einige Anmerkungen zum heutigen #TagDerBefreiung. Weizsäcker setzte einen wichtigen Punkt gegen Revisionismus, aber er bot den Deutschen auch eine Entlastung. Befreit wird man von etwas Fremden, das man nicht selbst war. /2

You can always rely on the #German Government to not even be ashamed of their complicity in illegal occupation in #Lebanon, ceasefire violations, and Genocide in #Gaza. "Germany’s [FM] offers qualified support for Israel’s military operations in Lebanon" www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

People fleeing Beirut (Dahieh) after the Israeli airstrike (Al Jadeed)

Israel just bombed Dahieh, Beirut

Amal Khalil, the Lebanese journalist at Al Akhbar Newspaper, who was targeted and killed by the IDF yesterday, had shared with ARIJ her testimony on the explicit threats she received from Israel for her revelatory work www.linkedin.com/posts/arijne...

في ملتقى أريج عام 2024، شاركتنا الصحفية آمال خليل شهادتها الحية حول التهديدات الإسرائيلية الصريحة التي تستهدف حياتها بسبب عملها الصحفي وإصرارها على كشف الحقيقة. لم تكن آمال تبالغ؛ بل كانت توثّق… | AR...

في ملتقى أريج عام 2024، شاركتنا الصحفية آمال خليل شهادتها الحية حول التهديدات الإسرائيلية الصريحة التي تستهدف حياتها بسبب عملها الصحفي وإصرارها على كشف الحقيقة. لم تكن آمال تبالغ؛ بل كانت توثّق بصوته...

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Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF. Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it. The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Two Lebanese journalists were trapped by the IDF in South Lebanon. One of them, Amal Khalil, is still trapped. Israel did a triple tap strike. Again. The second strike injured the journalists. The third strike trapped them.

Two Lebanese journalists were trapped by the IDF in South Lebanon. One of them, Amal Khalil, is still trapped. Israel did a triple tap strike. Again. The second strike injured the journalists. The third strike trapped them.

If Israel tries to maintain lasting military presence inside south Lebanon, as it did after November 2024, I'm not sure it will be uncontested this time. In retrospect, absence of Hizbullah attacks 2024-26 looks like a strategic choice, as Hizb was preparing for this conflict.

Sam Heller | سام هيلر@abujamajem.com · 4mo ago

Israeli army sources to Haaretz's Yaniv Kubovich: Israeli military establishing new permanent-seeming outputs inside south Lebanon; employing Gaza-style tactics despite clear difference between Gaza and Lebanon terrain. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

98% of documented white phosphorus attacks in south Lebanon — tracked at whitephosphorus.info — fall within the IDF-declared "Forward Defense Zone." The zone Israel now claims as a military buffer is the same territory it systematically struck with that munition.

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The IDF-declared "Forward Defense Zone" covers approximately 70 Lebanese villages - more than the 55 villages reported by Israeli media. Among those known to still be inhabited: the Christian villages of Rmeish, Debl, and Ain Ebel, and the Sunni town of Shebaa.

Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement. @weatherwar

Blowing up civilian homes as "terror infrastructure" as revenge for IDF's failure to occupy the village in 2006. "I've come for payback. To kill the murderers of Hezbollah, and to blow up their homes, which became terror infrastructure".

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

And this is a video filmed by the Israelis themselves showing them detonating Bint Jbeil This is a textbook war crime

Israel detonating what’s left of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon. They were already destroyed. Israel is obliterating everything. Day 2 of the “ceasefire” between Lebanon and the genocidal nation

This is what’s left of the historic town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon after Israel passed through it