Lebanon’s displaced celebrate Ramadan amid fears that border conflict might become the ‘new normal’
9 months ago

Lebanon’s displaced celebrate Ramadan amid fears that border conflict might become the ‘new normal’

Associated Press  

MARWANIEH, Lebanon — Shortly before sunset on a recent evening, Mervat Reslan and a group of other women made french fries in vats of boiling oil to serve with that night’s iftar — the meal that breaks the daily fasts Muslims observe during the holy month of Ramadan. They belong to roughly 60 families who have been sheltering at an abandoned hotel in the southern Lebanon town of Marwanieh to escape the shelling and airstrikes that have made it too dangerous to stay in their homes in the country’s border region with Israel. Residents displaced from their homes in southern Lebanon by clashes on the border with Israel eat during the Muslim’s holy fasting month of Ramadan, at an abandoned hotel being used as a shelter in the southern town of Marwanieh, Lebanon, Friday, March 15, 2024. A boy displaced from his home in southern Lebanon by clashes on the border with Israel carries food distributed to displaced families at a hotel being used as a shelter in the southern town of Marwanieh, Lebanon, Friday, March 15, 2024. “I think the risk of an all-out war still exists, and I would argue that it’s high,” said Emile Hokayem, director of regional security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based think tank.

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Lebanon’s displaced take stock of their losses amid delicate truce
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Lebanon’s displaced take stock of their losses amid delicate truce

CNN  

Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon CNN — Like tens of thousands of Lebanon’s displaced, Hussein Mallah headed to the southern suburbs of Beirut at the break of dawn on Wednesday. Muhammad Darwish/CNN Traffic jams have returned to Hadi Nasrallah Avenue in Lebanon’s capital, the southern suburbs’ main boulevard named after the son of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah’s leaders appear …

Middle East: 3 die in overcrowding outside Gaza bakery amid food shortage. Israel strikes in Lebanon
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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Middle East: 3 die in overcrowding outside Gaza bakery amid food shortage. Israel strikes in Lebanon

LA Times  

Displaced residents walk on the rubble of their destroyed house in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon. In discussing arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and now-former-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, the court said it found grounds to believe the men “bear criminal responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare.” The war between Israel and Hamas began on …

Lebanon’s displaced wrestle with grief and despair as they return home
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Lebanon’s displaced wrestle with grief and despair as they return home

Al Jazeera  

Beirut, Lebanon – When Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire on Wednesday, Adnan Zaid breathed a sigh of relief. It’ll take five or six days for us to figure out if our home can be made liveable.” Reluctant to leave Israel and Hezbollah first began fighting on October 8, 2023, when the Lebanese group escalated a low-simmering exchange of …

Displaced Lebanese rush home after ceasefire, facing joy, loss, and uncertainty
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Displaced Lebanese rush home after ceasefire, facing joy, loss, and uncertainty

China Daily  

Displaced people are on their way home after the ceasefire in the southern suburbs of Beirut in Lebanon, on Nov 27, 2024. BEIRUT -- As the ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel took effect at dawn on Wednesday, Jihad Nasrallah, along with thousands of displaced Lebanese, wasted no time. Meanwhile, members of the Internal Security Forces managed traffic at key …

Israeli airstrikes leave massive trail of destruction across Lebanon
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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Israeli airstrikes leave massive trail of destruction across Lebanon

Associated Press  

For more than 60 days, Lebanese have watched stunned as Israeli strikes smashed into buildings, raising giant explosions and palls of smoke in the heart of the capital and other cities. In the southern city of Tyre, a towering bank of black and white smoke rose from the heart of downtown like a storm front and drifted over the Mediterranean …

Thousands join rush to return home on first day of Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire in Lebanon
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Thousands join rush to return home on first day of Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire in Lebanon

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Displaced families carry mattresses as …

Thousands of Lebanese return to their homes as Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire takes hold
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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Thousands of Lebanese return to their homes as Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire takes hold

Associated Press  

TYRE, Lebanon — Thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants returned home Wednesday as a ceasefire took hold, driving cars stacked with personal belongings and defying warnings from Lebanese and Israeli troops to avoid some areas. “We reached a point where there was no place to hide.” The U.S.- and France-brokered deal, approved by Israel …

November 27, 2024 – Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect in Lebanon
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54 years, 11 months ago

November 27, 2024 – Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect in Lebanon

CNN  

A child gestures while holding a Hezbollah flag from the window of a car, at the entrance of Beirut's southern suburbs, after a ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed group Hezbollah took effect, in Lebanon, on November 27. Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters Israel’s security cabinet has approved a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah, potentially ending more than a year of cross-border clashes with Hezbollah …

Thousands returning home to south Lebanon after Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Thousands returning home to south Lebanon after Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

Al Jazeera  

As a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect, much of Lebanon was quiet for the first time following 14 months of a conflict that has killed thousands of people. The displaced residents of southern Lebanon started returning to their homes amid celebrations hours after the ceasefire started at 4am on Wednesday. Thousands of people made their way to …

Displaced returning to southern Lebanon amid hopes ceasefire will hold
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Displaced returning to southern Lebanon amid hopes ceasefire will hold

Al Jazeera  

People quick to start making their way back to homes amid signs that Israel-Hezbollah truce deal is holding. Displaced Lebanese people have started returning to the south of the country amid hopes that the embryonic ceasefire deal between Hezbollah and Israel will hold. Civilians began moving south towards their homes shortly after the truce, announced overnight by United States President …

Celebrations and taking stock as cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel takes hold
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Celebrations and taking stock as cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel takes hold

LA Times  

War is often less seen than heard, and as a cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel came into effect on Wednesday morning, Ibrahim Najdi marveled at the absence of one particular sound: the buzz of Israeli drones that had been a near-constant presence in Beirut over the last few months. The Lebanese army said in a statement on Wednesday that it …

People are heading back home in Lebanon on day one of Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire
3 weeks, 6 days ago

People are heading back home in Lebanon on day one of Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

NPR  

People are heading back home in Lebanon on day one of Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire Under the deal, Israel will withdraw forces over 60 days as Lebanon's army takes control of territory near the border to ensure that Iran-backed Hezbollah does not rebuild its infrastructure. NPR's Lauren Frayer joined some of them on their journey south, into what had been until yesterday …

Displaced people return to south Lebanon as ceasefire appears to hold
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Displaced people return to south Lebanon as ceasefire appears to hold

New Indian Express  

Long-displaced residents of south Lebanon started returning to their homes amid celebrations hours after a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group took effect early Wednesday morning. The ceasefire has brought relief across the tiny Mediterranean nation, coming after days of some of the most intense airstrikes and clashes since the war began, though many wondered if the agreement …

War between Hezbollah and Israel drags Beirut back into despair
4 weeks, 1 day ago

War between Hezbollah and Israel drags Beirut back into despair

Live Mint  

BEIRUT—From his tiled terrace in the foothills overlooking Beirut, Mohammed Dayekh is watching a place he once loved go up in flames. Israel says its airstrikes are targeting Hezbollah’s infrastructure, including what it says are weapons storage facilities and bunkers used by the group’s military wing underneath Dahiyeh, the Hezbollah-dominated neighborhood where Dayekh grew up. Strikes have hit near Beirut’s …

Israel pounds Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut after defence minister rules out ceasefire in Lebanon
1 month, 1 week ago

Israel pounds Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut after defence minister rules out ceasefire in Lebanon

Firstpost  

The Israeli military conducted multiple airstrikes on Hezbollah-controlled areas in southern Beirut, following a declaration by Israel’s defense minister that there would be no ceasefire until the country’s objectives were met The Israeli military carried out at least five airstrikes on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday, after Israel’s defence minister ruled out any ceasefire in Lebanon until …

Israeli Military Issues Evacuation Warnings in South Lebanon, Including Rashidieh Camp
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Israeli Military Issues Evacuation Warnings in South Lebanon, Including Rashidieh Camp

Firstpost  

Israeli forces urge residents in several regions of southern Lebanon to evacuate due to ongoing clashes with Hezbollah. The army stated that it was ready to strike targets in those locations, urging residents to move to the north of the Awali River immediately. The Israeli military also issued an evacuation warning for all residents of the city of Baalbek, including …

Israel's deadliest strike in central Beirut leaves Lebanese stunned as they dig through the rubble
2 months, 1 week ago

Israel's deadliest strike in central Beirut leaves Lebanese stunned as they dig through the rubble

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television and Israeli …

Hezbollah faces backlash in Lebanon as Israel’s invasion widens
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Hezbollah faces backlash in Lebanon as Israel’s invasion widens

LA Times  

As Israel’s invasion of Lebanon intensifies and brings more destruction to the Mediterranean nation, anger among the Lebanese with Israel is, not surprisingly, at an all-time high. “This is a war between Iran and Israel on Lebanese territory,” said Samy Gemayel, a Parliament member with the Kataeb Party, a longtime rival of Hezbollah. “This couldn’t have happened without betrayal,” said …

Iran vows support for Lebanon and backs ceasefire with conditions, as Qantas offers free flights to evacuate Australians — as it happened
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Iran vows support for Lebanon and backs ceasefire with conditions, as Qantas offers free flights to evacuate Australians — as it happened

ABC  

A UN refugee agency official says most of Lebanon's nearly 900 shelters are full and people fleeing Israeli strikes are increasingly sleeping out in the open. "Most of the nearly 900 government established collective shelters in Lebanon have no more capacity," UNHCR's Rula Amin told a Geneva press briefing. The agency also said that some people are fleeing on foot …

1.2 mln people in Lebanon displaced by Israeli airstrikes
2 months, 3 weeks ago

1.2 mln people in Lebanon displaced by Israeli airstrikes

China Daily  

A displaced family drives in a car, with their luggage, along the city's corniche amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in Beirut, Lebanon on Oct 1. BEIRUT -- The total number of displaced persons in Lebanon due to Israeli airstrikes has risen to nearly 1.2 million, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Disaster Risk …

Families seek shelter on the streets of Beirut as Israeli bombardment continues
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Families seek shelter on the streets of Beirut as Israeli bombardment continues

ABC  

On the streets of Beirut, families seek shelter in makeshift tents along the city's seaside promenade after their homes were destroyed by Israeli strikes. Displaced people take shelter at a park near the site of an Israeli strike, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Kola, central Beirut, Lebanon September 30, 2024. She described the impact of …

Thousands try to flee in Lebanon's biggest exodus in nearly 20 years as Israel continues bombarding Hezbollah targets and UN meets today to warn 'our world is heading off the rails'
3 months ago

Thousands try to flee in Lebanon's biggest exodus in nearly 20 years as Israel continues bombarding Hezbollah targets and UN meets today to warn 'our world is heading off the rails'

Daily Mail  

Israel's brutal bombardment of targets across Lebanon has prompted a mass exodus with tens of thousands of citizens fleeing their homes yesterday even as IDF bombs continued to fall overnight. Smokes rise, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tyre, southern Lebanon September 23, 2024 Cars sit in traffic as they flee the southern villages amid ongoing …

Displaced Lebanese beg to go home as country braces for escalation in fighting
4 months, 1 week ago

Displaced Lebanese beg to go home as country braces for escalation in fighting

ABC  

When Manahel Rammel looks at videos of her home, she cannot believe what she has left behind. Ms Rammel and her family fled their village of Adaisseh in Lebanon's south to avoid Israeli air strikes and artillery fire, reprisals for attacks in Israel by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Overall, nearly 100,000 Lebanese have been displaced by Hezbollah's conflict with …

Fears of a wider war between Lebanon and Israel grow as leaving loved ones behind becomes a stark reality for some
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Fears of a wider war between Lebanon and Israel grow as leaving loved ones behind becomes a stark reality for some

ABC  

Rosemarie Hawa has lived in Lebanon for 15 years, but "can't wait" to leave. Israel's bombs flatten parts of South Lebanon village Satellite images show much of the Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab in ruins after months of Israeli air strikes, offering a glimpse of the scale of damage in one of Hezbollah's main bastions in south Lebanon. The Department …

Lebanon gives tour of Beirut airport to refute arms claims, amid fears of war with Israel
6 months ago

Lebanon gives tour of Beirut airport to refute arms claims, amid fears of war with Israel

LA Times  

Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon in May 2023. According to the un-bylined Telegraph story, one Beirut airport staffer reported seeing “unusually big boxes” arriving on a flight from Iran in November and that a high-ranking Hezbollah member oversaw customs shipments. The caretaker Lebanese Transportation …

Why Israel-Hezbollah tensions risk boiling over now
6 months, 1 week ago

Why Israel-Hezbollah tensions risk boiling over now

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Cross-border attacks from Lebanon in early June led to large fires blazing through Israel’s northern region, which Israel attributed to rocket fire from southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah said it had launched a “swarm of drones” at …

Why Israel-Hezbollah tensions risk boiling over now
6 months, 1 week ago

Why Israel-Hezbollah tensions risk boiling over now

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Cross-border attacks from Lebanon in early June led to large fires blazing through Israel’s northern region, which Israel attributed to rocket fire from southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah said it had launched a “swarm of drones” at …

Lebanon family ‘invited to dinner’ is among the casualties in Israeli strike
10 months, 1 week ago

Lebanon family ‘invited to dinner’ is among the casualties in Israeli strike

The Hindu  

Hussein Barjawi had invited his daughter, her husband and their two young sons to dinner in south Lebanon, but an Israeli strike nearly wiped them all out, an official said on Thursday. At least five family members — Hussein Barjawi, his daughters Amani and Zeinab, his sister Fatima and Zeinab’s son Mahmud Amer — were killed in the strike in …

What’s behind Israel’s escalation on south Lebanon?
10 months, 1 week ago

What’s behind Israel’s escalation on south Lebanon?

Al Jazeera  

A notable increase in attacks may signify that Israel is stepping up a campaign to clear the south. “It wants to empty the area south of the Litani of civilians.” ‘War crimes’ in south Lebanon Analysts agreed, telling Al Jazeera that Israel’s history of behaviour in conflict shows efforts to make southern Lebanon uninhabitable for civilians to create a security …

Israel border violence displaces 76,000 in Lebanon: IOM
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Israel border violence displaces 76,000 in Lebanon: IOM

The Hindu  

More than 76,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon in almost three months of near-daily fighting along the border with Israel, the UN's International Organization for Migration has said. In a report published on Thursday, the International Organization for Migration said that the escalation has displaced 76,018 people, mainly in areas of southern Lebanon bordering Israel. Cross-border violence has left …

Lebanese residents of border towns come back during a fragile cease-fire between Hamas and Israel
1 year ago

Lebanese residents of border towns come back during a fragile cease-fire between Hamas and Israel

Associated Press  

KFAR KILA, Lebanon — With a cautious calm prevailing over the border area in south Lebanon on Saturday, the second day of a four-day cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, villages that had emptied of their residents came back to life — at least briefly. “We say God willing nothing bad will happen, but the situation now is difficult, and as …

More than 19,000 displaced in Lebanon as Israel border clashes escalate: UN
1 year, 2 months ago

More than 19,000 displaced in Lebanon as Israel border clashes escalate: UN

Al Jazeera  

International Organization for Migration official says the movement of thousands of people is not helping an already ‘deteriorating’ situation in Lebanon. More than 19,000 people have been internally displaced in Lebanon since early October, according to the United Nations migration agency, amid soaring tensions near the Israel-Lebanon border after the Israel-Hamas war erupted. The International Organization for Migration said 19,646 …

In Lebanon, thousands are displaced from border towns by clashes, stretching state resources
1 year, 2 months ago

In Lebanon, thousands are displaced from border towns by clashes, stretching state resources

Associated Press  

TYRE, Lebanon — More than 4,200 people have been displaced from villages in south Lebanon by clashes on the border with Israel, and local officials said Friday that they are ill-prepared for the much larger exodus that would ensue if the limited conflict escalates to an all-out war. He appealed to international organizations to “give us enough supplies that if …

Saudi Arabia urges citizens to depart Lebanon 'immediately'
1 year, 2 months ago

Saudi Arabia urges citizens to depart Lebanon 'immediately'

Hindustan Times  

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday called for all citizens to leave Lebanon "immediately" as tensions mount along Lebanon's southern border with Israel. A protester waves a Palestinian flag as riot police use tear gas during a demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, near the U.S. embassy in Aukar, a northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The Gulf kingdom's embassy …

Ramadan recipe: Fateem's kibbe shines, even in a Syrian IDP camp
1 year, 8 months ago

Ramadan recipe: Fateem's kibbe shines, even in a Syrian IDP camp

Al Jazeera  

For Ramadan, Fork the System brings you stories of family, connection, and the dishes that made the month special for our guest chefs. For the past five years, Fateem Khaled Errahmoon and her large family have lived in a camp for displaced people near Maarat Misrin, a small city in northwestern Syria's Idlib province. Every meal was a big family …

Heading home: Syrian refugees in Lebanon going back to Syria
2 years, 1 month ago

Heading home: Syrian refugees in Lebanon going back to Syria

Associated Press  

ARSAL, Lebanon — Hundreds of Syrian refugees boarded a convoy of trucks laden with mattresses, blankets, water and fuel tanks — and, in one case, a goat — in the remote Lebanese mountain town of Arsal on Wednesday, heading home to Syria. “The economic situation doesn’t allow us to provide for them.” Lebanon has given shelter to more than 1 …

'This is going to be a difficult Ramzan': Food insecure Syrian refugees struggle to fast, and feast
3 years, 8 months ago

'This is going to be a difficult Ramzan': Food insecure Syrian refugees struggle to fast, and feast

Firstpost  

BHANNINE, Lebanon: It was messy and hectic in Aisha al-Abed’s kitchen, as the first day of Ramadan often is. Of course, I feel defeated.” Ramzan, which began on 13 April, comes as Syrian refugees’ life of displacement has gotten even harder amid their host country Lebanon’s economic woes. “High prices are killing people,” said Raed Mattar, al-Abed’s 24-year-old husband. Even …

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