Lebanon
Latest stories
Police tries to evict hundreds of displaced from abandoned Hamra building

Police stormed an abandoned building in Beirut’s commercial district, Hamra, to evict hundreds of displaced by Israel’s war, who have been squatting there for weeks.

Lebanese authorities have prepared hundreds of shelters to accommodate the displaced. But as their numbers climbed to nearly 20% of the population, or an estimated 1.2 million people, official shelters have not been able to cope.

W140 Full Story
Child among 6 killed in Israeli strike on Baalbek

An Israeli strike on the main eastern city of Baalbek killed six people including a child Monday, with state media reporting it hit a building in a densely-packed residential area.

"The Israeli enemy strike... in Baalbek killed six people, including a child," the Lebanese health ministry said, and the state-run National News Agency reported that all six were from the same family.

W140 Full Story
Report: Berri tells Hochstein president can be elected in 1st week of 3-week truce

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday proposed to visiting U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein ideas for resolving the current Israel-Hezbollah conflict, a media report said.

W140 Full Story
Report: Israel gives US its demands for ending war in Lebanon

Israel gave the U.S. a document last week with its conditions for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Lebanon and allow displaced civilians from both sides of the border to return to their homes, two U.S. officials and two Israeli officials told U.S. news portal Axios.

W140 Full Story
Macron calls for Lebanon and Gaza cease-fire in phone call with Netanyahu

French President Emmanuel Macron called once again for a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, the Elysee Palace said in a statement.

Macron said the elimination of Hamas’ top leader Yahya Sinwar last week in Gaza “must be an opportunity to begin a new phase of negotiation” for a cease-fire, the release of hostages and the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

W140 Full Story
Hochstein holds 'very constructive' talks with Berri, says 1701 needs new mechanism

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein said Monday that he held a "very constructive" meeting with Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh and that the U.S. is working with Lebanon and Israel on a "formula that brings an end to this conflict once and for all."

Hochstein added that U.N. resolution 1701 is “no longer enough” and that a new mechanism must be put in place to ensure it is implemented “fairly, accurately, transparently.”

W140 Full Story
Germany demands Israel probe all incidents involving UN in Lebanon

Germany on Monday demanded Israel "clarify every incident" involving the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon and urged it to investigate the destruction of a UNIFIL observation tower.

U.N. peacekeepers on Sunday said an Israeli "army bulldozer deliberately demolished" an observation tower and fence of a U.N. position in southern Lebanon, where the army is fighting Hezbollah.

W140 Full Story
Hezbollah targets troops on border villages as Israeli army blows up houses

Hezbollah said it repeatedly targeted Israeli troops in south Lebanon border villages over several hours on Monday, saying at least one of the attacks caused "certain casualties".

Hezbollah fighters targeted "a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers on the eastern outskirts of the village of Markaba" with three separate rocket salvos, it said, adding one of the attacks caused "certain casualties" and that its fighters also targeted Israeli troops attempting "to evacuate the dead and wounded".

W140 Full Story
Lebanon assesses damage after wave of Israeli strikes on Al-Qard Al-Hassan

Lebanese were surveying the damage on Monday after overnight Israeli strikes hit nearly a dozen branches of a Hezbollah-run financial institution that Israel says is used to fund attacks but where many ordinary people keep their savings.

The strikes targeted Al-Qard Al-Hassan branches in the southern neighborhoods of Beirut, across southern Lebanon and in the Bekaa, where Hezbollah has a strong presence. One strike flattened a nine-story building with a branch inside it. Smoke was still rising from several locations on Monday and bulldozers were removing the debris.

W140 Full Story
Mikati says told Iran leaders to 'lower their sympathy' toward Lebanon

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has stressed that the only solution to the current conflict is “diplomacy.”

W140 Full Story