Israel continues to target southern Lebanon, this includes artillery shelling, low-altitude drone surveillance, demolition operations, and machine-gun fire. Earlier today, Israeli forces carried out a major blast targeting residential infrastructure in Zawtar al-Sharqiya, while…Mostrar mais

There are moments on this website where it is a curse to have the privilege of both vision and reading comprehension

During an interview with Podium Plus, Iranian journalist Mohammad Gharawi stated that if Israel initiates a war on Lebanon, Tehran will view the offensive as a direct war on Iran. Gharawi explained that this deterrence doctrine applies to Lebanon due to specific provisions enshr…Mostrar mais

An Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, in southern Lebanon

Confront the present in all its raw brutality, and fight for the world as it ought to be, with absolute, unyielding conviction.

My latest for @ukcolumn on olive season in south Lebanon and how the threat of Israeli aggression has turned our olive groves into killing fields www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-killing-field...

Israeli attacks have continued across southern Lebanon and have included bombings near Beit Yahoun and Baraachit; artillery shelling targeting Wadi al-Salouqi, Al-Mansouri, the Eastern outskirts of Zawtar, Kfar Tebnit, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, and Mayfadoun. Video from @samerhajali

Multiple Israeli airstrikes on Kfar Tebnit, in southern Lebanon.

This country needs to undergo immediate de-Frenchification.

The desperate, self-mutilating impulse some Lebanese have to see themselves as French subjects is a kind of colonial neurosis that needs to be studied.

In the last hour, Israeli warplanes launched a series of intense airstrikes across several areas in southern Lebanon including Ainata, Kfar Tebnit, Haddatha, Baraachit, Talousa, and Wadi al-Hujair.

Weeks ago, I published a photograph of a burned truck in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, not knowing the story of the man killed inside by an Israeli attack. His son reached out to me, telling me that this was his father's vehicle, and that Israel had killed him while he was transporting food…Mostrar mais

For the latest ep. of @deleteuracct: @KumarsSalehi and I discuss the latest developments, my piece on the Israeli massacre in Kfar Rumman, and NY Mayor Zohran Mamdani (yes, really) www.patreon.com/deleteyouraccount/posts/la...…Mostrar mais

Saudi Arabia has attacked Sanaa's airport over two dozen times before the most recent Saudi aggression, and there has never been a single word of condemnation from those who have taken it upon themselves to condemn Yemen's Armed Forces and the so-called territorial integrity of t…Mostrar mais

The Saudi-backed coalition announces that Yemen's capital, Sanaa, will be targeted soon, describing the upcoming attack as a "special military operation."

A Saudi airstrike targeted two residential homes in the Khabb wa ash-Sha'af District of Yemen's Al-Jawf province, killing nine people, predominantly women and children. Yemen's Ministry of Health has announced that the total number of casualties resulting from the Saudi aggressi…Mostrar mais

Three Lebanese citizens have been killed by Israel in southern Lebanon in less than 48 hours: Edgar Jallo, a First Sergeant in the Internal Security Forces, was killed this morning by the explosion of unexploded Israeli ordnance on the outskirts of Ain Ebel while working in an a…Mostrar mais

An Israeli attack on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese town of Yater has killed a local resident who was checking his land and olive trees. This is the second Lebanese citizen killed today during the first week of olive harvest season.

Lebanese engineer Hussein Ali Ramadan was killed by the detonation of unexploded Israeli ordnance while harvesting olives on his land in the southern Lebanese town of Froun.

ورح نرجع... ع بيوتنا، ع زيتوننا، ع ترابنا، وع جنوبنا يلي مهما صار، بيضلّ جنوبنا

"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

My latest for @ukcolumn examines the Israeli strike that killed three generations of a southern Lebanese family in Kfar Rumman, including six children. I spoke with Dr. Lina Farhat, a relative, about the family's final days, and what happened to the two surviving children after…Mostrar mais

Some people are truly willing to sell out their own community for the sake of our struggle being turned into a coffee table book on an online influencers' table.

My interview with Dr. Lina Mortada Farhat, a pediatrician, and relative of the victims of the Israeli massacre carried out against the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Rumman earlier this month. To this day, the Lebanese government has not reached out to survivors nor inquired a…Mostrar mais

Israeli attacks on south Lebanon have intensified today, inarguably linked to the second anniversary of the assasination of Hezbollah's Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. There have been attacks on Haddatha, Al-Mansouri, Qabrikha, Al-Khiam, Mays al-Jabal, Majdal Zoun, Be…Mostrar mais

The sound of Israeli drones over southern Lebanon this evening

ها أنا أقف أمام الجدران المتناثرة على الطرقات ، ورائحة الموت الممتلئة هواء هذا الذي كان يسمى يوماً ما وطن عندما كنت أنت سياجه . هل يعقل أن أبقى مكاني أنظر إلى هذه الأطلال ،لا لن أقف بل سأتابع المسير رغم الألم والمصاعب ، رغم العواصف التي تأخذ معها ما نحب . لا لن أتوقف فكل الطرقات…Mostrar mais

For the night must surely clear away, The jailers will fall, And the chains will surely break. And the martyrs will return as biting frost, and blazing fire.

A week or so ago I had shared an image I took in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, southern Lebanon, of a truck that had been destroyed in an Israeli drone strike. A young man reached out to me with a short message "this was my father's truck," he wrote. Since then I have had the honor of spea…Mostrar mais

"بلادي يا جنان الخلد حسنا ويا أرض النبوغ الابتكار ويا أم الكماة بكل روع ويا غاب الضياغم والضواري فديتك لا تقولي راض شعبي وأسلس للهوان وللصغار أنذعن للهوان ونرتضيه وفي أيماننا بيض الشفار ... فإن الردى أشهى لنا من معيشة يعلّى بها وغد ويخفض سيد وقولوا لمن باعوا البلاد برتبة وشادو…Mostrar mais

From a historic hub of Islamic scholarship and the Arab literary renaissance to an unyielding symbol of modern resistance, my brief report on the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh.

The site of a more recent Israeli attack on Nabatieh al-Fawqa, in southern Lebanon.

صبر أهل جبل عامل وحرثوا الصخر في زمن الشدة؛ فما خضعت الرؤوس، وسيبقى التراب لأهله الذين سقوه عرقا ودما

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Part of a minaret destroyed in a previous Israeli attack on Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.

At least three Israeli airstrikes have targeted Nabatieh al-Fawqa, in southern Lebanon

In the end, by whatever means, everything will return. *taken in Majdal Selm, southern Lebanon

For the latest @deleteuracct: @KumarsSalehi and I discuss the latest developments in Lebanon, common tropes in western coverage of the ongoing ethnic cleansing of south Lebanon, and more youtube.com/watch Also subscribe on patreon for bo…Mostrar mais

Bani Hayyan is one of dozens of southern Lebanese villages currently being targeted by Israel for systematic demolition. This is the first piece in a series documenting the ongoing destruction across the towns and villages of south Lebanon.

"​يا أبا عبد الله. لو هدموا بيوتنا سنبقى معك. لو قتلوا شبابنا سنبقى معك. لو هجّرونا من ديارنا.. سنبقى معك."

كل ظالم إلو يومه

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This is the aftermath of an Israeli double-tap strike on an ambulance in south Lebanon. The victim was paramedic Youssef Kamel Atwi. He was killed in Al-Sawana, in March.

There's a reason certain people immediately believed Saudi propaganda allegeding that Ansarallah was attempting to target Mecca. And we'll just leave it at that.

Two young men who had been reported missing, Ali Mustafa Fawaz and Fadl Abbas al-Roumi, were found in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, southern Lebanon, yesterday; they were killed in an Israeli airstrike.

From the deliberate levelling of historic sectors within Nabatieh to the pre-dawn slaughter of a sleeping family in Kfar Rumman, Israel's escalating campaign in southern Lebanon is systematically destroying the foundations of life. My latest www.ukcolumn.org/article/israeli-attacks-a...Mostrar mais

Seven days after an Israeli strike killed 12 members of the same family in Kfar Rumman, southern Lebanon, and orphaned two children, the Lebanese state has offered only silence. A government that cannot summon the dignity to name the dead has already surrendered the right to gov…Mostrar mais

Lebanese educator Adeeb Obaid was killed by Israeli gunfire in the southern Lebanese town of Baraachit earlier today.