South Lebanon resilience — “We will not leave our homes!”

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South Lebanon — The road to al-Mansouri, a village cut in half by Israel’s yellow line, tells its own story. We pass through an endless exhibition of risk-free actions by the so-called occupiers. Burnt out vehicles from hits by drones. Homes and infrastructure destroyed by those guided bombs from fighter jets. But the road also tells a different story. Resistance flags are defiantly planted in the rubble of each and every demolished building. Portraits of martyrs proudly adorn the lamp posts. The countryside is reminiscent of all my journeys to south Lebanon. Rolling hills connected by endlessly twisting carriageways through villages…

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The Washington Mirage and the Scars of Southern Lebanon

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While diplomats in Washington smile for triumphant group photos, the reality on the ground in southern Lebanon reveals an unbridgeable chasm between political theater and human devastation. Covering the frontline return of families to the border region, I see no celebration; only the hollowed-out expressions of a traumatized population navigating a conditional surrender. Entire villages have been erased into toxic, ordnance-littered rubble, and a systematic ecocide has left ancient olive groves and agricultural fields poisoned and charred. By completely omitting accountability and Israeli reparations, the Washington-backed agreement ignores this profound structural violence, leaving an abandoned community entirely alone to rebuild their…

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Netanyahu says Israel will occupy Lebanon for as long as they ‘need’

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Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu has said Israel will occupy Lebanon for as long as required. The settler colonial state pushed deep into the country’s south during the most recent invasion and is still holding swathes of Lebanese territory. Netanyahu said on 9 July: We will remain in the security zone in southern Lebanon for as long as necessary to guarantee the security of our communities in the north. The war criminal PM was addressing a group of Israeli pilots. The Times of Israel reported that he told them: The war is not over. Alongside old challenges, new ones continue to emerge.…

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Israel targeted two Canary journalists with stun grenades in south Lebanon

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Zahra — a Lebanese citizen from the south of Lebanon — was on her balcony, pouring coffee, telling two journalists — one British, one Lebanese — what it is like to live in a town which has now become inside Israel’s yellow line of occupation, and why she can’t leave. Then BANG!! An Israeli drone had dropped a stun grenade — a flash-bang, the kind police lob to scatter riot crowds — around 30 metres from where they sat. On the recording, you can hear it detonate. You can hear her voice change: https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Guy-and-Mohamad-—-stun-grenade.wav The translation of the Arabic from the…

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Lebanon — fury at the government sell-out of the south

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Lebanon — On Friday (June 26th,) as the Shia festival of Ashura concluded, protestors took to the streets of South Beirut to vent their anger as news spread of the ‘framework agreement’ between the Lebanese government and Israel. Youth on foot, and riding scooters, blocked the main road to the airport with burning barricades. It took the army several hours to regain control of the area. On paper the deal looks weak, to say the least. Just four out of sixteen parties represented in the Lebanese Parliament are in favour of the agreement. All of them are right-wing and Christian. On…

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The defiance of Nabatieh, Lebanon

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Since the latest war began in October 2024, the city of Nabatieh, and its surrounding district, has suffered Israeli aggression on an unprecedented scale. It has a long history of fierce resistance to occupiers — going back to the 1978 invasion and every major war since. A major economic hub and stronghold for Shia-Muslim parties like Hezbollah and Amal, it is also considered to be of great strategic importance, as the southern gateway to the Bekaa valley. The fighting here has been intense and the human cost to local people enormous. The Shia festival of Ashura, which commemorates the martyrdom of…

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Lebanon government signs agreement with Israel in the blood of its own citizens

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On Friday, 27 June, in a room at the US State Department, Lebanon’s ambassador to Washington — with zero diplomatic credentials prior to this post — signed her name to a “framework agreement” with Israel. US secretary of state Marco Rubio beamed that it was “the beginning of the beginning.” As usual, in spite of American imperial pomp the ‘agreement’ is not what it appears, as Al Jazeera reported: he agreement does not force Israel to withdraw from the large area of southern Lebanon that it continues to occupy, and Israel also appears to be signalling that it will continue its…

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Lebanon president and PM condemn Iran’s efforts to end Israeli invasion

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Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun — like his prime minister Nawwaf Salam — has objected to Iran’s terms for negotiations with the US, including an end to Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. The pair’s regime is widely considered a ‘Vichy‘ regime collaborating with its occupiers and their US backers. Aoun has insisted that “no one negotiates on our behalf” — a position for which Lebanese-American journalist Rania Khalek rightly derided him over. Khalek pointed out that Aoun — and Salam — are attacking those who, unlike them, are trying to stop Israel’s invasion of Lebanon and the slaughter of Lebanese civilians. Imagine your…

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Another Hind Rajab murderer bites the dust in Lebanon

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Another of the Israeli military officers involved in the murder of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and her family has bitten the dust in Israel’s illegal invasion of Lebanon. In May 2026, Meir Biderman was seriously wounded in an ‘FPV drone’ attack on his 401st armoured brigade HQ in occupied southern Lebanon. Now, first reported on 19 June 2026, Dor Gedalia Ben Simhon, commander of the brigade’s 52nd battalion, was killed when his tank was hit by a ‘suspicious object’ while operating with the notorious ‘Givati brigade’. Simhon had taken over command of the battalion when its previous commander was seriously…

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Israel kills at least 47 people in Lebanon: today’s news alert

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Renowned journalist Guy Smallman is on the ground in Southern Lebanon for the Canary. Here is his first daily report. To understand the flare-up today, Friday 19 June, between the IDF and Hezbollah’s resistance fighters, it is first necessary to take a look at the location in Lebanon. Lebanon: Friday, 19 June The Ali al-Taher ridge in Lebanon is home to a complex system of tunnels which form the backbone of local infrastructure for Hezbollah’s elite Radwan brigade. Constructed largely in secrecy, the complex was officially declared in a video by the group’s military media unit in 2024. Described as an…

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Watch: Israeli fascist Ben-Gvir — “We cannot stop demolishing homes in Lebanon”

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Israel’s fascist ‘security minister’ Itamar Ben-Gvir has said that no matter what is agreed between the US and Iran, Israel “cannot” stop demolishing civilian homes in Lebanon. This, supposedly, is because Israel “must” control the territory from which it has ethnically cleansed more than a million innocent Lebanese people: We cannot stop demolishing houses in southern Lebanon. We cannot stop. We cannot allow the residents of southern Lebanon to return. We must continue to control the territory even if we disagree with (US President Donald) Trump, we are an independent state. Ben-Gvir: We cannot stop destroying houses in southern Lebanon. We…

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Iran foreign minister Araghchi says no truce unless Israel leaves Lebanon

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Iran foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has responded to Israel’s attempts to reject Donald Trump’s supposed ceasefire ‘memorandum of understanding‘ with Iran. Araghchi warned Israel – and Trump – that there is no prospect of any agreement to end the illegal US-Israel war unless Israel gets out of Lebanon completely: The end of the war will not be complete without the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the territories they occupied in Lebanon. Any military attack by Israel on Lebanon and the continued occupation of Lebanese territories from now on, in our opinion, is a violation of the MoU. https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Araghchi-Lebanon-Subbed-hb.mp4 Araghchi continues to…

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Israel’s illegal war against Lebanon leaves 250k without proof they owned their destroyed homes

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As Israel’s brutal expansionist campaign in Lebanon continues with absolute impunity, Lebanese officials warn the destruction could leave up to 250,000 people unable to prove they own homes that have been – or will likely soon be – demolished. Aerial imagery over Bint Jbeil has fuelled this growing alarm, appearing to show the destruction of sites holding civil records and land deeds – effectively erasing “the paper infrastructure of a city’s legal existence.” The Intercept report that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) targeted attacks have left Bint Jbeil without a notary. Government buildings have been razed to the ground, and Lebanese…

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Genocidal British lord wants IOF to ‘finish the job’ in Lebanon

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Howard Leigh, a Tory peer, has asked the House of Lords why it was stopping Israel’s occupation forces (IOF) from being able to “finish the job” in Lebanon. Leigh, disgustingly, said: The only successful way of dealing with, in effect, Iran in Lebanon through Hezbollah, is through military action. At what point do the British Government stop spending British taxpayers’ money helping the Lebanese Government, and, instead, allow the IDF to finish the job? His words were so shockingly genocidal that even Starmer’s ally and Cabinet MP Jenny Chapman had to respond with how wrong Israel’s actions were: With respect, I…

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Israel and the US are weaponising starvation in Lebanon

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In the current negotiations over Lebanon’s borders, the United States does not sit at the table as an impartial broker of peace, but as the orchestrator of a calculated financial siege. The Trump administration is utilising underhanded economic warfare, targeted banking blockades, and weaponising the global dollar system to deliberately starve the Lebanese state into a position of absolute geopolitical capitulation. Lebanon — Weaponised interdependence As formal diplomatic delegations gather under the polished chandeliers of international summit rooms to debate lines on a map, an ordinary Lebanese citizen stands in a dim Beirut neighbourhood, calculating whether their remaining cash can cover…

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Genocidal Ben-Gvir calls Lebanon ceasefire a ‘serious mistake’

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Israel’s minister of national security and genocide fanatic, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has called the potential ceasefire with Lebanon a ‘serious mistake’. Importantly, the ceasefire would effectively surrender Southern Lebanon to Israel, with zero promise from Israel to stop attacking. Obviously, Hezbollah has declined the offer. So the “ceasefire” would effectively cede southern Lebanon to Israel without any promise by Israel to stop attacking. Hezbollah has declined this offer. https://t.co/RLXooXsPYb — Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) June 4, 2026 Israeli terrorists Israel Katz, Israel’s Defence Minister, said the U.S.-brokered Lebanon ceasefire declaration includes: an unequivocal statement on the disarmament of Hezbollah, the removal of Hezbollah…

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Trump’s latest Lebanon remarks are the same old nonsense

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Donald Trump has claimed that Israel and Hezbollah have “agreed to halt attacks” after indirect talks through intermediaries. Trump wrote: I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop – that Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel. Bearing in mind that no US president has ever spoken with Hezbollah, and the US designated the group a terrorist organisation, we have to ask if the intermediary was a carrier pigeon or a pet fish? According to statements from Lebanon’s embassy in Washington, the plans mean Hezbollah would stop ‘attacking’ Israel.…

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WATCH: Lebanon school for disabled children destroyed

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Israel’s contempt for the lives and wellbeing of children, and for international law, is on show daily. As well as attacking Lebanese hospitals, the invaders have blown up a school for disabled children in southern Lebanon. The destruction was not a stray shell or even a targeted airstrike. Instead, it was wanton destruction using planted explosives. Lebanon school ‘rigged with C4’ https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Lebanese-Disabled-School-hb.mp4 Hate for children A school for disabled children, while the occupation continues to maim and murder children in Lebanon and Gaza — and film sexual assaults of Israeli children. Zionism is terrorism. Featured image via Instagram By Skwawkbox Source link

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Historian rebukes Sky News on ‘shameful complicity in war crimes’ over Lebanon coverage

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British historian William Dalrymple has sharply rebuked Sky News, accusing the outlet of “shameful complicity in war crimes” after it characterized Israel’s war on Lebanon as “taking a much tougher stance” rather than the “ethnic cleansing of one quarter of a neighbouring state.” In what lexicon is ethnically cleansing one quarter of a neighbouring state “taking a much tougher stance”. Shameful complicity in war crimes by @SkyNews @adamparsons https://t.co/Tuh0WoEBfm — William Dalrymple (@DalrympleWill) June 1, 2026 Adam Parsons, the Sky News correspondent, had used the words “taking a much tougher stance,” and tried to argue with Dalrymple and defend US/Israeli war…

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Israel shakes fragile Iran-US peace talks with Lebanon assault

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Israel’s continuing attack on Lebanon has shaken the fragile peace talks between the US and Iran. The settler colonial state has also forced thousands to flee the southern suburbs of Beirut as it pushes into the capital. Drop Site News shared this week how: Hezbollah has framed its operations as retaliation for Israel’s own daily strikes on civilian areas across southern Lebanon, which have killed hundreds of civilians and demolished entire towns and neighborhoods since Israel escalated war on March 2. At the start of the latest Israeli invasion in March, the Canary reported: Israel violated the US-brokered Lebanon 2024 ‘ceasefire’ more…

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