Source: Kataeb.org
Security & Justice
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Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Sunday 5 May 2019 13:42:21
Kataeb's Media Council Slams Lawsuits Against Journalists as Attempt to Rein in Free Media
Kataeb's Media Council condemned attempts to dash the freedom of expression in Lebanon, deeming the lawsuit filed by the Lebanese University President Fouad Ayyoub against Voice of Lebanon radio host Nawal Lichaa Abboud as a desperate bid to rein in the media.
“It is a failed attempt to subdue free media and free journalists to succumb in order to marginalize the other's opinion and continue imposing a new identity for Lebanon," the council said in a statement.
"The Kataeb party will stand against any repressive or eliminatory approach,” it affirmed.
Voice of Lebanon radio presenter Nawal Lichaa Abboud has been referred to the Publications Court based on a lawsuit filed by the Lebanese University president over an episode she had hosted to discuss the conditions of the state-run academic establishment.
The Council also denounced a previous lawsuit pressed against Kataeb website writer Sonia Rizk over an article she had written, and posted on the Kataeb.org website, about the corrupt behavior of a minister's adviser.
“The Kataeb party assures that it will follow up on this case, and any other similar ones, to preserve public freedoms and to safeguard the dignity of free journalists," the statement stressed. "The party will remain, as it has always been, at the vanguard of those who advocate the cases of justice, righteousness, and freedom."
