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Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
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
FC Barcelona Fears First Team Star Will Be Banned From Playing, Reports SPORT
FC Barcelona is concerned that one of its main first-team stars will be banned from playing at the turn of 2025 because of issues related to his registration and Financial Fair Play (FFP) limits according to SPORT, which cited anonymous sources.
Friday, November 1, 2024
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
Monday 31 January 2022 14:45:24
Dagher Deems Kuwaiti Initiative as Last Chance
Kataeb Secretary-General Serge Dagher on Monday stressed that Hezbollah holds sway over Lebanon, deeming the Kuwaiti initiative as last notice to end Lebanon’s unending crises.
“The Kuwaiti initiative is no longer the last chance rather the last notice. The only way to lift the country out is by obtaining a financial rescue package to rekindle an economy that has been in free-fall for two years,” Dagher said in an interview on Sawt Beirut International.
The Kuwaiti initiative is a list of conditions for the rehabilitation of the troubled relations between Beirut and the Gulf monarchies as well as the implementation of international resolutions, including UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which calls for the disarmament of all militias including Hezbollah; a return to the policy of distancing and non-interference in the affairs of Arab countries and in particular the Gulf countries; control of borders and crossing points; as well as the strengthening of security measures at the airport to prevent drug trafficking to Saudi Arabia.
The proposal also calls for the implementation of political and financial reforms in accordance with the terms of the International Monetary Fund and the international community.
Dagher deemed the 2016 Maarab agreement between the Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement and the adoption of an electoral law that gave a majority for Hezbollah as main reasons for the situation that we have come to.
“We, as the Kataeb party have refused to elect Aoun whose Hezbollah’s ally. The presidential settlement that elected Aoun and the electoral law that gave the majority to Hezbollah contributed to the bad situation we are experiencing today,” he added.
“The upcoming parliamentary elections are a big challenge so as to make Hezbollah lose its parliamentary majority.If the Lebanese people elect the same ruling elite in the upcoming parliamentary elections we will face a big problem but I think they seek change," he emphasized.
Dagher also stressed the necessity to develop and implement the Taif Agreement.
The Taif Agreement had two main objectives: the reform of Lebanon's political system and the disarming and dissolution of the country's multiple militias.
