Seven months into the latest Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, the extent of the damage is nothing short of staggering. Israeli officials have been open about using the Gaza model in Lebanon, and about a desire to make certain villages, particularly Shi’ite villages “disappear.” Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is warning that post war reconstruction, which […]

Since invading southern Lebanon in early March, Israel has sustained relatively few casualties, compared to the thousands of slain Lebanese. This weekend was an outlier, however, with two different incidents of IDF casualties reported. The largest incident was on Saturday, when a pair of Israeli military vehicles collided near Rab al-Thalathine, a rural village in […]