Under the Bombs - Sous les Bombes

Thanks to Michael B. for the heads-up about this remarkable upcoming Lebanese film centred around the Israeli attack last year, Under the Bombs/ Sous Les Bombes.
Franco-Lebanese Director Philippe Aractingi filmed during the actual conflict, commencing shooting only ten days into the 34 day war that claimed well over a thousand Lebanese lives–most of them civilians; [...]

Survivors of the Summer War - 27 Jul 07

Excellent documentary by Al Jazeera on the situation in Lebanon one year after the conflict.

URGENT: Aid to Nahr al Bared

05.28.2007 |
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
A growing humanitarian crisis is occurring in North Lebanon at the Palestinian Camp, Nahr Al Bared Camp. Heavy fighting began on Sunday 20 May, with shelling on the camp itself beginning on Tuesday, May 22. According to statistics by UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees in the Near East, [...]

When the Israelis do this, we scream at the injustice, but when the Lebanese army does it we applaud them.

 ”In the first three days of the recent events involving the Lebanese army and Fateh el-Islam in the Nahr el-Bared camp, the Lebanese army committed what would amount to war crimes in a similar fashion to that of the Israeli army in Gaza and in Lebanon last summer, firing on a civilian population indiscriminately. When [...]

Beirut: before and after the July War

IDF commander: we fired more than 1 million cluster bombs

By Meron Rappaport
Ha’aretz Last update - 14:20 12 September 2006
“What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.
Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head stated that the [...]

Israel blockade on Lebanon prevents oil spill clean-up

Posted by peoplesgeography on September 5th, 2006
by Salim Yassine Mon Sep 4, 12:49 PM ET
BEIRUT (AFP) - The Israeli blockade on Lebanon is preventing the widescale intervention needed to clean a massive oil slick caused by the Jewish state’s bombardment of a power station, Greenpeace has said.
“You have to be able to overfly Lebanese waters [...]

Rebuilding Lebanon

Posted by peoplesgeography on September 6th, 2006
Democracy Now | Sept 5 2006
Three weeks after the ceasefire that ended the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah, residents in Lebanon are struggling to rebuild. Thousands of families returning to their homes now face the daunting task of clearing away the rubble and coping with the destruction. Democracy [...]

Lebanon: Unexploded bombs hamper rural recovery

Posted by peoplesgeography on September 6th, 2006
IRIN, 5 September 2006
RAS AL-AIN/ TYRE - Now that war is over, farmers are returning to their land in southern Lebanon only to find their crops destroyed and their livelihoods ruined while unexploded bombs are hampering recovery.
Wafi Al-Khishin fled his banana plantation in Ras Al-Ain, outside Tyre in southern [...]

No ceasefire in Lebanon

Here is a list of Israeli massacres during its air war on and land invasion of Lebanon. That list may become longer soon, because Israel appears to be doing what it can to break the ceasefire, and ensure that no deal is reached. The Israeli blockade continues, thus making a mockery of their mockery of [...]

Annan hopes for blockade end ’soon’

Tuesday 05 September 2006, 18:25 Makka Time, 15:25 GMT 
Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, says he hopes Israel will lift its air and sea blockade on Lebanon within 48 hours.
“I don’t want to raise any false hopes, but I hope that in the next 48 hours we will have some news on that - constructive, positive [...]

UN faces rising anger in Lebanon

08.30.2006 | Guardian
Clancy Chassay in Beirut and agencies
Cluster bombs and blockade fuel resentment towards ‘unjust’ world body as Annan leaves for Israel
The UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, visited UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon yesterday, a day after he was met with protests by angry residents of Beirut’s devastated southern suburbs.
Timur Goksel, the former senior adviser and [...]

Lebanese lawmakers start sit-in against Israeli blockade

3 Sept 2006
Lebanese lawmakers, headed by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, launched an open-ended sit-in in parliament on Saturday protesting an Israel-imposed blockade on Lebanon.
“The continuation of the siege will suspend the fulfillment of (UN Security Council) Resolution 1701 and lead to its suffocation and violation. It will also have negative repercussions on the rebuilding process,” [...]

Noam Chomsky: Their View of the World is Through a Bombsight

Chomsky speaks to  Dr Hesham Tillawi Vidoe
Dr Chomsky speaks to Dr. Hesham Tillawi 9/11, Israel, Palestine, Iraq and the Lebanon war watch film (49 mins)
Noam Chomsky: Their View of the World is Through a Bombsight
1 Sept 2006 | The Guardian
In Lebanon, a little-honoured truce remains in effect - yet another in a decades-long series of [...]

Lebanon aid pledges top $940m

Thursday 31 August 2006
International donors have pledged more than $940 million for the
reconstruction of Lebanon, nearly double the amount originally sought.
Fuad Siniora, the Lebanese prime minister, expressed his “great
appreciation” to the donor countries meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
He added that the conference had been successful “not just in terms of
show of support [...]