A woman and her two children were killed in the early afternoon of Wednesday, February 14, by an Israeli airstrike...
Birsen Özden found herself embraced by an early Monday morning in February 2023 when the ground beneath her suddenly stirred....
Red roses, balloons, and life-sized teddy bears have taken over the streets of Beirut in preparation for lovers’ most anticipated occasions: Valentine’s day. But for Lebanese farmers and florists focusing on local and seasonal crops, this celebration is not necessarily synonymous with a profitable holiday. To Josephine Abou Abdo, a...
Since Sunday, Israeli forces have intensified their bombing on the Gaza Strip, now focusing on the Rafah area where about...
On Tuesday, Lebanese judge Nawaf Salam was elected as the new president of International Court of Justice (ICJ), making him...
On Sunday, February 5, the mother of Al-Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh, Nadhira, died of illness at a hospital in Gaza according to the Qatari news platform. Since the onset of the war on Gaza, Al-Dahdouh has been one of the prominent faces reporting on Israel’s aggression across the strip. He...
Every year, winter brings with it a catastrophe for Beirut: Streets flood, roads cave in, sinkholes form, and whole buildings...
The Access Center for Human Rights (ACHR) has released a report titled “What Happens After the Deportation of Refugees from...
The Anti-Racism Movement (ARM) in Lebanon released a new report titled “Historicizing Migrant Domestic Workers’ Community Organizing and Class Struggle in Lebanon”, containing decades of migrant domestic worker (MDW) community organizing and includes reflections upon such experiences by MDW rights activists. The report is “the first historical overview of community...
The 2024 Budget: Increased Costs on the Poor, Exemptions for the Rich, and Disregard of the Conflict
The Lebanese Parliament approved the 2024 state budget after three days of consecutive discussions, thereby respecting the mandated timeline. While...
At least nine countires have suspended funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) following...
Today, January 26, the International Court of Justice ruled in favor of implementing emergency provisional measures requested by South Africa in its case against Israel under the convention of committing or preventing a genocide. The ruling stated that the court found that there’s a plausible case of Israel committing a...