My story from yesterday on Israel’s attacks on Beirut and other parts of Lebanon www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

My latest for Middle East Eye: satellite imagery analysis reveals that an Ethiopian army base in western Ethiopia is being used as a weapons & logistics hub by Sudan's UAE backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF), to launch cross border attacks on Sudanese army positions from Ethiopia.

When I spoke to one of my displaced cousins in Beirut today, he said: “Now that Israel isn’t sending its warplanes to bomb Iran, they have a lot of extra time to bomb us”

This goes without saying and I am sure that the majority of you already do but please follow @ayoub.bsky.social @warghetti.bsky.social @aymanmak.bsky.social @mbazzi.bsky.social for all things Lebanon.

While killing dozens of people in Lebanon (MOPH says 112, civil defense counts 250+, until now), Israel still found time to kill another one of our colleagues in Gaza.

More attacks on Beirut just now. White House saying Lebanon not included in ceasefire. Iran saying attacks must stop or they will not take part in discussions.

War planes are still flying overhead

Hospitals reporting they are overwhelmed with victims. Over 100 strikes in just minutes. Many in Beirut and its southern suburbs.

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

Israel hit all over Beirut. Strikes were in nearly all the neighborhoods surrounding my house. Reports saying many injured and dead. Israel seems to be intensifying before a ceasefire is implemented

As soon as word of Trump’s announcement came in the drone reappeared. Louder than before

A child is said to have been murdered when an astray projectile landed on his family's residence in al-Amiriyah, western Baghdad, the site of the infamous shelter massacre of 1991.

We should never have gotten to this point. And hopefully Pakistan and others can help find an exit ramp. but we need to be realistic about the severity of this moment. I'm not sure Americans fully appreciate it.

Read some version of this exact nonsense a million times from Iran hawks over the last two decades. They must be thrilled that their policy ideas finally got a real world test. Right?

1/ In Lebanon, more than 1.2 million people have been displaced and 1,400 killed since the war between Israel and Hezbollah began in March. @justinsalhani.bsky.social shares one month of diary entries about what it’s been like living and working in Beirut. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

We are just mere statistics to them, a hurdle or an inconvenience they must overcome. Our genocide by them is only negative to them if it affects them personally or threatens their world hegemony.

Shelly Kittleson has been reportedly freed.

Dial Magazine asked me to keep a diary for the last month of the war. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Next week? Why the rush? Please take your time there's absolutely no need to hurry.

“Even if [the attack] was a mistake, the Israelis are not likely going to clarify why they struck there,” Michael Young, a Lebanon expert at the Carnegie Middle East Center, said. “They want to create a rift between the Lebanese communities and isolate the Shia community”

Sentinel-2 imagery shows a significant part of Ash Shumara village was obliterated, which is close to Al Naquora by the southern Lebanese-Israeli border, when comparing Mar 5 to Apr 4. Sentinel-2 has always been a valuable asset & is more so now that Planet is withholding visibility in the region.

my latest on two strikes from Jnah (south of Beirut) & Ain Saadeh (east of Beirut) that took place on April 5 www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

"Best paragraph explaining why the Iron Dome does not actually save lives".-- @katewillett.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/iron-dome-is...

"What are memory, reconstruction, and the power of the image when the place is gone?" Satellite images show Israeli excavators demolishing Khiam Detention Center in southern Lebanon, where 5,000+ were once held and tortured, reports @@baydoun.nl  

"The metric of deciding who is a legitimate target 'in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.'” from an article on US drone policy post-9/11

Israel is pounding Beirut on Easter Sunday. The last airstrike, in the Jnah neighborhood, full of refugees from other areas, is being reported as a massacre—20 casualties & counting. It was so loud in Ras Beirut my left ear is still throbbing something awful

I wrote this *before* the war: how we should expect the aggression against Iran to resemble the Israeli destruction of civilian infrastructure of Gaza, a crucial component of the genocide.

Israel has hit Beirut’s southern suburbs at least 8 times today, in one of the most violent days since the intensification restarted in March.

If you’re going to read anything, I’d suggest both parts of this war diary by Azadeh Sadeghi, written from inside Tehran and Isfahan, translated by @rezahakbari.bsky.social.

Israeli officials have openly stated that all Shia Lebanese are their enemy, and most of these are Shia-majority towns. It is a genocidal regime. And destroyed towns include Christian ones too.

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

Israeli officials are pressing Christian and Druze Lebanese civilians not to provide shelter for Shia Lebanese civilians as they target them (h/t @nytimes.com). A dark, dark repetition of history. For shame that we live in a world where we have not learned from its lessons.

How Israel is destroying healthcare infrastructure in southern Lebanon www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

“One month into the latest intensification of strikes on Lebanon, Israel has killed 53 medical workers, destroyed 87 ambulances or medical centers, and forced the closure of five hospitals”— excellent reporting by @justinsalhani.bsky.social on Israel’s campaign to destroy healthcare in south Lebanon

How Israel is destroying healthcare infrastructure in southern Lebanon www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

As flyers with QR codes get dropped by Israel, people receive threatening phone calls & suspicious links spread amid the fog of war, @smex.org is working to provide lifesaving digital security support to those on the ground. Donate to support their work here: smex.org/keep-communi...

I will repeat this again and again: Israel’s goal in Lebanon is to destroy the country itself. Israel is targeting Lebanese Shias - a war crime - to push for civil war in Lebanon

You can destroy towns and villages, ethnically cleanse them, but the risk on our soldiers should be reasonable.

Saying something is 'complicated' should be the start of examining/explaining it deeper and understanding the forces surrounding it, rather than a means of deflection or failing to find a moral position on an issue

"While imperial interventions and fantasies of geopolitical domination have thrown the region into a deadly crisis, it seems absolutely necessary — alongside direct aid — to think through and also organize forms of collective defence against a murderous status quo." www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

My latest piece on Solidarity in Times of War in #Lebanon was translated and published by @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social Auf Deutsch: www.rosalux.de/news/id/5460...

Last couple of days for the initial pre-order of the new merch drop! To get yours, order now! everpress.com/profile/stadio

At least seven killed in Israeli strikes in Beirut area, Lebanon says reut.rs/4sccPrd

The reason why Merz invited Al-Sharaa.

More details here www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Everything happening now in Lebanon & Iran—the killing of schoolchildren, the targeting of hospitals & healthcare workers, the murder of journalists & its open justification, the bombing of universities—every single war crime that has been normalized was forced upon our consciousness first in Gaza

I visited Lebanon's suicide prevention hotline center, where calls have doubled in comparison with 2024's mass displacement. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Listen to @warghetti.bsky.social and @justinsalhani.bsky.social discuss Israel's war on Lebanon. thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/27/v...