Last week, the Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom.bsky.social), Amnesty International (@amnesty.org), & 3 U.S. lawmakers urged accountability for Israel’s Oct. 13, 2023 strike in south Lebanon that killed Issam Abdallah, critically injured Christina Assi, & wounded 5 other journalists.

The story of Lebanon’s seven lost villages is one of colonial greed & forced displacement. From Tarbikha to Salha, generations of families were stripped of citizenship, land, & identity. Dana Hourany documents their history: https://thepublicsource.org/lebanon-lost-stolen-villages

A draft law in Lebanon seeks to regulate seed trade, adding to mounting pressures on farmers. In 2022, Christina Cavalcanti & Chris Trinh (@christhaotrinh.bsky.social) documented how farmers practiced seed saving to resist corporate monopolies. thepublicsource.org/seed-saving-...

🏆 We’re proud to announce that “Stolen By a Map: The Haunting History of Lebanon’s Villages” by Dana Hourany has been shortlisted for the Outstanding Contribution to Peace Award by the Fetisov Journalism Awards.

في الذكرى الثانية لاستشهاد رفعت العرعير، نضع بين أيديكم ترجمةً عربيةً لنصّه المنشور ضمن كلمة ما بعد التحرير في "Gaza Unsilenced". يقدّم الترجمة عاصم النبيه، ويكتب عن رفعت الذي كان واضحًا إلى حد أربك أصدقاءه وأخاف أعداءه. thepublicsource.org/ar/refaat-al...

On June 13, 2025, Israel launched a surprise attack on Tehran. For 12 days, grassroots mutual aid networks helped evacuate students, deliver groceries, & more. Alex Shams (@alexshams.bsky.social) spoke to Iranians who turned despair into solidarity. 🔗 thepublicsource.org/tehran-solid...

“The Only Liberated Place”: Birzeit University and the Fight for the Future of Palestine #FreeFalastin thepublicsource.org/birzeit-pale...

“We are abiding by UN Resolution 1701, which calls for a halt to hostilities,” an army source said. “We are committed from our side, but Israel is not.” ... Since most of the army’s funding and training come from the U.S., Abi Raad said, Lebanon is restricted from acquiring advanced weapons.

In South Lebanon, farmers continue to face Zionist aggression on their lands. Dana Hourany spoke with four farmers from Houla, Chebaa, Mays al-Jabal, and Kfar Kila who returned to scorched land, spoiled crops, and dead livestock. 🔗 thepublicsource.org/lebanon-bord...

At Bread&Net last week, our journalist Layla Yammine presented a database documenting names, locations, & dates of death of martyrs killed by Israel since October 2023. 🔗 Coverage in Almodon:

In this interview with Khalil Kawtharany and Karim al-Amine, Arab academic Ali Kadri offers a searing indictment of imperialism’s logic in the Global South: war, waste, and the commodification of death. 🔗 thepublicsource.org/global-south...

Our journalist Layla Yammine joins Hussein Chaaban of Legal Agenda at Bread&Net to lead a workshop on using legal, journalistic, linguistic & tech tools for documenting wartime evidence through local investigations. 🗓️Oct. 30 🕜1:30PM 📍Beirut

The Global Sumud Flotilla is about six days from reaching Gaza. Since setting sail earlier this month, it has come under Israeli drone attacks. This week, Spain and Italy have announced they will send ships to protect the flotilla.

At Birzeit University, getting a degree can mean doing time in Zionist prison. In our latest (Dis)order Report, Maysa Mustafa and Zach Hussein recount the experiences of Birzeit students who have been surveilled, arrested, or killed by the Israeli occupation.

Hundreds gathered at Corniche Ain al-Mreisseh yesterday to honor the more than 3,000 people injured in the Israeli Mossad’s act of terrorism last year. ⬇️In pictures 📸 Lylla Younes/The Public Source

⛵🇵🇸Jaldia Abubakra, Masar Badil's executive committee member, is aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla en route to her homeland: Gaza. She told Julia Choucair Vizoso & Farah-Silvana Kanaan (@farouha.bsky.social) last month: “We have to valorize the resistance." thepublicsource.org/masar-badil-...

Stories by journalists embedded with an invading force often become the ‘master narrative.’ Mainstream media comply with occupying forces that also kill unembedded journalists. Habib Battah (@habibbattah.bsky.social) & Christina Cavalcanti unpack this: thepublicsource.org/media-ethics...

Netanyahu has offered military escorts to foreign journalists for guided tours of Gaza that sanitize and legitimize genocide. We call on our peers to refuse to embed with these Israeli propaganda tours. #BoycottIDFEmbeds Read our statement: thepublicsource.org/media-embeds...

Our homepage has gone dark in solidarity with our Palestinian colleagues. 🔗 www.thepublicsource.org #ProtectJournalistsinGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza #BoycottIDFEmbeds

Excellent investigation by @thepublicsource.bsky.social on Western media outlets that agreed to go on embeds with Israeli troops occupying parts of Gaza and Lebanon — and the skewed coverage they produced

In October 2024, journalists from some of the world’s largest and most influential news organizations — @wsj.com, @nytimes.com, BBC, & others—piled into armored vehicles & Jeeps. The Israeli military was about to take them for a ride: a guided tour of occupied southern Lebanese villages.

صباح الثاني من شباط ٢٠٢٥، اخترق زورقان إسرائيليان المياه اللبنانية متجهين مباشرة نحو الصيادين عاطف أحمد جهير وابن عمه محمد. اختطف العدو عاطف بينما هرع محمد لطلب النجدة من مخابرات الجيش اللبناني، لكن دون جدوى. 🧵

Has the city rush stolen away our tetas’ kitchen traditions? Reflecting on her grandmother’s traditional kitchen, journalist Layla Yammine reflects on how the fast-paced lifestyle of Beirut has distanced us from ancestral food culture. 🔗 thepublicsource.org/mouneh-zero-...

What is Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement? In this interview, Jaldía Abubakra speaks about her role in Masar Badil, the collective’s vision for a liberated Palestine, and the shifting ties of public opinion on Zionism. ⬇️ thepublicsource.org/masar-badil-...

Anas Al-Sharif has been the voice of Gaza to the world. The Israeli regime sees his work and that of his colleagues as a powerful weapon against genocide. So, they threaten, target, and kill journalists. Illustration: Amy Chiniara.

We spoke with Jaldía Abubakra from Masar Badil about building a revolutionary Palestinian movement from exile. “We’re fighting an enemy backed by global imperialism and capitalism.” thepublicsource.org/masar-badil-...

On the morning of Feb. 2, two Israeli gunboats invaded Lebanese waters and headed straight in the direction of Lebanese fishermen Atef Ahmad Juhair & his cousin Mohammad. Mohammad was abducted while Atef rushed to seek help from the Lebanese army intelligence. No one helped. 🧵

Five years. No justice or accountability 💔 #Lebanon

Since November 2024, Lebanese fishermen have been stalked by drones, threatened through intimidating leaflets, and directly targeted by Israeli vessels. Read our latest, in collaboration with @dropsitenews.com 👇🏼

The deadly port explosion of August 4, 2020, destroyed lives across Beirut. Five years later and the state has yet to hold anyone accountable.

[In Photos by Rita Kabalan] We raised $1,950 for The Sameer Project! Thanks to all who attended an evening of poetry and testimony with members of the New York War Crimes Collective @wawog.bsky.social, joined by scholar & translator ‪@hudafakhreddine.bsky.social & Palestinian poet Ahmad Almallah.

Join us today at Barzakh Bookshop in Hamra for an evening of poetry and testimony by members of the New York War Crimes collective (@wawog.bsky.social), with literary scholar Huda Fakhreddine and Palestinian poet Ahmad Almallah. ⌛ Time: 7:30 pm All proceeds will go to The Sameer Project.

Amidst the war, Iranian visual artist Golrokh Nafisi writes to Palestinian writer Mohammed el-Kurd about burying her 99-year-old grandmother - whose anti-colonialist convictions mirrored his grandmother Rifqa's resistance. Read the letter here: https://thepublicsource.org/nafisi-letter-el-kurd

من السجون الإسرائيلية إلى عيادات الخصوبة، تشكّل عملية تهريب نطف السجناء الفلسطينيين داخل أقلام بلاستيكية أو غلاف حلوى، استراتيجية وجودية تؤكد على الحياة .في مواجهة آلة .القتل وسياسات التطهير الديموغرافي وإدارة الموت .بقلم ليال فتوني

Come work with me and a brilliant team of journalists and editors @thepublicsource.bsky.social #JournoJobs #MediaJobs #EditorJobs

📝 Passionate about bold, independent journalism in Lebanon and beyond? The Public Source is hiring a Deputy Editor to help shape our editorial work and support our organizational growth. Apply today👉🏽 thepublicsource.org/join #JournalismJobs #Lebanon #MediaJobs

اعتقلت قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي الناشطة الفلسطينية سناء سلامة، أرملة الأسير السياسي الشهيد وليد دقة، أثناء خروجها مع ابنتها ميلاد البالغة من العمر خمس سنوات في القدس مساء أمس الخميس الموافق ٢٩ أيار ٢٠٢٥.

The Israeli occupation detained Palestinian activist Sanaa Salameh, widow of martyred political prisoner Walid Daqqa, while she was out with their 5-year-old daughter Milad in Jerusalem last night, Thursday, May 29, 2025.

Education has long been a cornerstone of Palestinian identity & resistance. That's why it has faced systematic targeting by the settler colonial project in Palestine for over a century. This 🧵 provides a glimpse into the history and struggles of Palestinian education—and its deliberate erasure.

How do Palestinian prisoners transform their bodies into tools of resistance? Smuggling sperm out of Israeli prisons, inside plastic pens or candy wrappers, defying cameras and guards… to fertilize an egg that becomes a child. Written by Layal Ftouni.

📚 From educator Khalil Totah’s 1937 testimony to the destruction of Gaza’s libraries today, Palestinians have long understood that education is a site of power and resistance. #Scholasticide #PalestinianEducation #EducationUnderAttack

What does it mean to have grown up during Lebanon’s civil war? For writer Lina Mounzer, Lebanon’s 15-year civil war instilled in her a deep nostalgia for a childhood spent inside bomb shelters — a simpler time, even as her city Beirut was fragmented by violence wrought by one neighbor unto another.

عشية الذكرى الخمسين للحرب الأهلية اللبنانية، ينبش الكاتب محمد ناصر الدين في الذاكرة متقفيًا أثر "علي مينيوفيتش" الذي كان البحث عنه أشبه بالبحث عن إبرة في كومة قش.

Thank you to the Global Investigative Journalism Network (@gijn.org) for featuring us among our esteemed peers in the region for our commitment to upholding journalistic integrity. Written by Majdolin Hasan. https://gijn.org/stories/mena-focus-investigative-journalism-regional-overview/

What is the reward for victimhood? What do we achieve by making Palestinian suffering more palatable? In his latest book, “Perfect Victims: and the Politics of Appeal,” Mohammed el-Kurd rejects the impossible standards imposed on Palestinians — to suffer politely and resist peacefully.

Last October, Israel's military propaganda arm released a "kill list" of journalists, as my colleagues @thepublicsource.bsky.social accurately put it. Hossam was one of them. Now he's dead. Where the hell are Western media? Where's all the free speech warriors? thepublicsource.org/blog/press/i...

Yesterday Israel killed Palestinian journalist Hossam Shbat, in a targeted strike on his car. In final words he left, Shbat said: “By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest—something I haven’t known in the past 18 months.”

Why does the Global South remain in a constant state of war, debt, and dependency? According to Ali Kadri, it’s not dysfunction — it’s design. Imperialism and capitalism rely on war and destruction to sustain themselves. 🧵 A thread on resistance and the logic of accumulation by waste:

@thepublicsource.bsky.social's Richard Salame on a decades-long, UNDP-administered program to graft expert consultants onto Lebanon's post-civil war state institutions, with perverse effects: thepublicsource.org/consultants-...

[مشاهد من الحرب بعدسة فاطمة جمعة] في هذا المشهد، تنبش المصوّرة في ذاكرتها باحثةً عن قرية أباد العدو ملامحها، تتلاشى ملامح الدرب في عينيها، فيدلّها أثر الشهداء. بقلم وعدسة فاطمة صلاح جمعة. https://thepublicsource.org/ar/blog/lebanon-war-diaries/return-kfar-kila