https://znetwork.org/category/place/middle-east/lebanon/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:46:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/middle-east/lebanon/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-silent-victim-warfares-enduring-environmental-scars-across-the-middle-east-2/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-silent-victim-warfares-enduring-environmental-scars-across-the-middle-east-2/#respond Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290601 The human cost of war is measured in lives lost and families displaced. However, a growing body of evidence from international organizations points to another, more enduring casualty: the environment. From the rubble-strewn landscape of Gaza to the fire-scorched lands of Lebanon and the industrial sites of Iran, military actions are unleashing long-term ecological disasters [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-silent-victim-warfares-enduring-environmental-scars-across-the-middle-east-2/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-untold-environmental-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-untold-environmental-genocide/#respond Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:10:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290294 On September 23rd, the UN published a little-noticed report highlighting a barely-acknowledged facet of the 21st century Holocaust in Gaza. Namely, the Zionist entity’s genocide is wreaking a devastating environmental toll not merely on occupied Palestine, but West Asia more widely – including Israel. The damage is incalculable, with air, food sources, soil, and water [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-untold-environmental-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/near-daily-israeli-assaults-on-lebanon-have-become-non-news-for-western-media/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/near-daily-israeli-assaults-on-lebanon-have-become-non-news-for-western-media/#respond Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:18:55 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289165 The Israeli military unleashed a large wave of air strikes on densely populated towns in South Lebanon on Thursday, September 18—although you’d never know it from the Western corporate media, who have increasingly lost interest in reporting on Israel’s unceasing war on its northern neighbor. This proceeds unabated in spite of a ceasefire, brokered by the United States [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/near-daily-israeli-assaults-on-lebanon-have-become-non-news-for-western-media/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/lebanons-military-intelligence-detains-journalist-reporting-on-israeli-war-crimes-without-due-process/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/lebanons-military-intelligence-detains-journalist-reporting-on-israeli-war-crimes-without-due-process/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:30:47 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1286512 On Sunday, July 20, Free Palestine TV’s Executive Director, Laith Marouf, attempted to enter south Lebanon for the purpose of covering recent Israeli attacks on a Lebanese border village. Laith was accompanied by Lebanese journalist Hadi Hoteit, the Producer of Free Palestine TV (FPTV). At a Lebanese Army checkpoint situated on the outskirts of the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/lebanons-military-intelligence-detains-journalist-reporting-on-israeli-war-crimes-without-due-process/feed/ 3 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-will-not-stop-war-until-palestinians-are-displaced-from-gaza-and-syria-is-dismembered-minister-says/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-will-not-stop-war-until-palestinians-are-displaced-from-gaza-and-syria-is-dismembered-minister-says/#respond Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:09:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283170 Israel will only stop fighting when “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians are forcibly displaced from Gaza and Syria is dismembered as a state, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday. “With God’s help and the valor of your comrades-in-arms who continue to fight even now, we will end this campaign when Syria is dismantled, Hezbollah is severely [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-will-not-stop-war-until-palestinians-are-displaced-from-gaza-and-syria-is-dismembered-minister-says/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/islamic-resistance-movements-and-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/islamic-resistance-movements-and-israel/#respond Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:23:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280454 We were searching for a site in the northern Bekaa valley recently bombed by Israel. Hadi knew near which village it was located but, as we drove between large expanses of fertile, well-cultivated fields, it was plain his information was vague. We pulled up at a garage to ask the way. Lebanon has not gone [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/islamic-resistance-movements-and-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/un-peacekeepers-watch-civilians-massacred/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/un-peacekeepers-watch-civilians-massacred/#respond Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1279685 On 26 January, 26 unarmed civilians were shot dead by Israel and 147 wounded in a massacre observed by heavily armed UN Peacekeepers who did not intervene. I asked the UN the very hard questions which nobody else is asking them. The civilians were simply attempting to return to their homes in accordance with both [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/un-peacekeepers-watch-civilians-massacred/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-gaza-to-the-west-bank-israels-unyielding-war-machine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-gaza-to-the-west-bank-israels-unyielding-war-machine/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:43:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279623 “A year of combat”—this is how Israel’s new Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, described 2025 at a conference organized by the Israeli ministry of defense. The exact sentence, translated from Hebrew, was: “The year 2025 will continue to be a year of combat.” The word ‘continue’ is crucial, suggesting that Israel will resume its wars, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-gaza-to-the-west-bank-israels-unyielding-war-machine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-atrocities-in-lebanon/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-atrocities-in-lebanon/#respond Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:46:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279070 Yesterday, not only did Israel fail to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, Israel also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in accordance with the deal, killing 23 and wounding 109 (of whom some are in critical condition). This included a 12 year old boy wounded [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israeli-atrocities-in-lebanon/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/what-the-hell-is-that/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/what-the-hell-is-that/#respond Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:47:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1278776 The United States is building a massive megastructure in Lebanon, a country with the area and population of Yorkshire or Connecticut and just a tenth of the economy. It is called an Embassy but plainly it is not.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/what-the-hell-is-that/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-ceasefire-is-not-an-end/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-ceasefire-is-not-an-end/#respond Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278511 The Genocide of the Palestinian people began 76 years ago. What may be drawing to a close is merely a particularly intense phase in the Genocide. Gaza is destroyed. 92% of its housing has gone. Its water treatment and sanitation, electricity generation, food processing, farming, fishing are all now incapable of sustaining much life. Its [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-ceasefire-is-not-an-end/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-five-days-that-changed-its-face-where-is-lebanon-headed/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-five-days-that-changed-its-face-where-is-lebanon-headed/#respond Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278501 The events that have unfolded in Lebanon between the election of a new president of the Republic on Thursday 9 January and the appointment of a new prime minister on Monday 13, constitute a major upheaval in the country’s political situation. The fact is that these events are themselves primarily the result of a major [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/after-five-days-that-changed-its-face-where-is-lebanon-headed/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-downward-spiral/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-downward-spiral/#respond Sat, 04 Jan 2025 15:13:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277956 Israel is riding high after carrying out the most audacious campaign of military conquest of any nation since the 1940s. Following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, Israel has begun an open-ended occupation in Lebanon, seized Syrian territory twice the size of Gaza, wiped 50 Palestinian villages “off the map” in the West Bank, bombed Iran and Yemen, and weathered more [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-downward-spiral/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-bank-israel-bombed/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-bank-israel-bombed/#respond Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1277609 Israel has relentlessly bombed all 38 branches of the Al-Qard Al-Hasan Association in Lebanon. Why is it so important to the Zionist cause to specifically obliterate a savings and loan institution? I investigate in our fourth mini-documentary from Lebanon. Click on the “Closed Captions” option at the bottom of the video and you will get [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/the-bank-israel-bombed/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/connecting-the-dots-behind-the-chaos-in-syria/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/connecting-the-dots-behind-the-chaos-in-syria/#respond Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:01:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1276701 Lebanese journalist Ghadi Francis joins for the first half of the stream to reveal the truth about Israel’s agreement to a ceasefire and the condition of Hezbollah following the weeks of ground war with the IDF. Syrian journalist Kevork Almassian joins in the second half of the program to break down the ongoing situation on [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/connecting-the-dots-behind-the-chaos-in-syria/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/truce-in-lebanon-can-diplomacy-rise-from-the-ruins/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/truce-in-lebanon-can-diplomacy-rise-from-the-ruins/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:16:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1276636 On November 26th, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both supposed to withdraw from the area of Lebanon south of the Litani River.  The agreement is based on the terms of UN Security Council resolution 1701, which ended the previous Israeli assault on Lebanon in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/truce-in-lebanon-can-diplomacy-rise-from-the-ruins/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-arms-used-in-illegal-israeli-strike-on-lebanese-journalists/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-arms-used-in-illegal-israeli-strike-on-lebanese-journalists/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1276557 An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, 2024, that killed three journalists and injured four others was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians and an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch determined that Israeli forces carried out the attack using an air-dropped bomb equipped with a United States-produced Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-arms-used-in-illegal-israeli-strike-on-lebanese-journalists/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lebanons-ceasefire-is-no-divine-victory/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lebanons-ceasefire-is-no-divine-victory/#respond Thu, 28 Nov 2024 16:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1276059 Could the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon be a new “divine victory”? That was how the agreement that ended the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon in 2006 was characterized by Hezbollah. Then, the party displayed that phrase on huge billboards featuring a picture of its Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, in a clear play on words, as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/lebanons-ceasefire-is-no-divine-victory/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/displaced/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/displaced/#respond Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1276012 1.2 million people have been forced from their homes and have become refugees. Each one is an individual human being, and they all had lives before this calamity. In many cases, their homes and all they possess have been destroyed. We met up with some of them, so they can tell you their stories.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/displaced/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-effects-of-israeli-barbarity/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-effects-of-israeli-barbarity/#respond Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275691 I could not tell the easy, comforting lie. “No”, I told the woman, her traumatised children clinging to her legs, “I can’t say you are safe here; not one of us is safe. The Israelis are genocidal. But in Lebanon so far, I don’t think they have bombed a school”. I was with one of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-effects-of-israeli-barbarity/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/usa-tries-to-pound-lebanon-into-submission/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/usa-tries-to-pound-lebanon-into-submission/#respond Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275616 Israel has intensified its air strikes on Lebanon and in particular on Beirut, ahead of a visit on Tuesday or Wednesday by US envoy Hochstein, at which he will press Lebanon to accept a US/Israeli ceasefire plan. This plan is touted as being based on UNSCR 1701, but in fact represents its abnegation. You may [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/usa-tries-to-pound-lebanon-into-submission/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/prepping-readers-to-accept-mass-slaughter-in-lebanese-strongholds/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/prepping-readers-to-accept-mass-slaughter-in-lebanese-strongholds/#respond Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:11:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275094 Back in May 2015, the New York Times’ Isabel Kershner decided to moonlight as an Israeli military propagandist by penning an alleged exposé (5/12/15)—headlined “Israel Says Hezbollah Positions Put Lebanese at Risk”—in which she diligently conveyed all that Israel had to say about Hezbollah’s infrastructure in south Lebanon. The minuscule hamlet of Muhaybib, for example, was said to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/prepping-readers-to-accept-mass-slaughter-in-lebanese-strongholds/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-hitting-a-wall-in-lebanon-what-is-its-endgame/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-hitting-a-wall-in-lebanon-what-is-its-endgame/#respond Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:48:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274780 “Not every objective can be achieved through military means.” Those were the words of Israeli war minister Yoav Gallant on October 28, commenting on Israel’s war on Lebanon. “Painful compromises will have to be made,” he said. Gallant’s comments came amid Israeli reports of a possible deal to end the war in Lebanon drafted by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-hitting-a-wall-in-lebanon-what-is-its-endgame/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-injured-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-with-white-phosphorus-report-finds/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-injured-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-with-white-phosphorus-report-finds/#respond Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:03:23 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274135 Israeli forces have attacked UN peacekeepers in Lebanon at least a dozen times in recent weeks, including one attack in which 15 peacekeepers were injured by white phosphorus, according to a new report. The Financial Times says there have been a dozen Israeli attacks on UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers, damaging bases and wounding peacekeepers, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-injured-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon-with-white-phosphorus-report-finds/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-war-on-the-united-nations/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-war-on-the-united-nations/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:46:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273883 The United Nations is an easy body to hate.  At times, it seems to be effusion without substance, body with no backbone.  It was conceived in a fit of post-war idealism, when egos were humbled and hatred briefly stemmed.  Over the ruins of the Second World War, the builders were favored over the destroyers and mischief makers – [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-war-on-the-united-nations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/un-troops-in-lebanon-can-shoot-back-at-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/un-troops-in-lebanon-can-shoot-back-at-israel/#respond Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:38:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273770 United Nations peacekeepers who have been fired upon by Israel can fire back at them according to a 2006 U.N. Security Council resolution. Paragraph 12 of Resolution 1701, which helped bring about an end of fighting in the 33-day Israel-Hezbollah conflict in 2006, says that the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL): “Acting in support of a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/un-troops-in-lebanon-can-shoot-back-at-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/idf-in-outrageous-threat-to-irish-un-troops-in-lebanon/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/idf-in-outrageous-threat-to-irish-un-troops-in-lebanon/#respond Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:15:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273564 An Irish-Israeli diplomatic crisis has been defused after Israel withdrew its invasion force from firing positions metres from a U.N. post in south Lebanon staffed by Irish peacekeepers. Irish President Michael D. Higgins had called Israeli demands for U.N. peacekeepers to abandon their posts as its invading army crossed deeper into Lebanese sovereign territory “an [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/idf-in-outrageous-threat-to-irish-un-troops-in-lebanon/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-officials-say-ceasefire-talks-are-suspended-as-harris-names-iran-top-enemy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-officials-say-ceasefire-talks-are-suspended-as-harris-names-iran-top-enemy/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:37:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273480 Biden officials have reportedly admitted that ceasefire negotiations amid Israel’s war on Lebanon and genocide in Gaza have been suspended, despite public insistence by high-powered figures within the administration that they are working around the clock for a ceasefire. The Biden administration has given up on ceasefire talks after first proposing a deal for a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-officials-say-ceasefire-talks-are-suspended-as-harris-names-iran-top-enemy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israels-history-of-attacking-lebanon-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israels-history-of-attacking-lebanon-gaza/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1273422 In a report from Beirut, Rima Majed examines Israel’s escalating attacks on Lebanon and how Israel’s actions in the region have fueled resistance movements. “Since October last year, we’ve realized … our lives do not have a meaning in this broader international order. We are numbers. Our bodies are disposable,” says Majed. “All we keep [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israels-history-of-attacking-lebanon-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-mouin-rabbani-react-to-lebanon-attack-iran-ietaliation-nasrallahs-death/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-mouin-rabbani-react-to-lebanon-attack-iran-ietaliation-nasrallahs-death/#respond Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1273161 Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani in discussion with India and Global left on the current situation involving Israel, Lebanon and Iran.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/norman-finkelstein-mouin-rabbani-react-to-lebanon-attack-iran-ietaliation-nasrallahs-death/feed/ 0