Occupy and destroy: Israel’s systematic demolition of Lebanese border villages

While the Israeli military has claimed to have limited goals for its invasion of southern Lebanon, an NBC News investigation found widespread destruction in areas occupied by the IDF.

Israel reportedly destroyed dozens of towns and villages in Lebanon

World - Yahoo News - November 5

Reports: Dozens of towns and villages destroyed in Lebanon

World - Yahoo News - November 5

The demolitions clearing Israel’s ‘first belt’ in Lebanon

IDF decimates towns and villages within 3km of border as it fights Hizbollah

Business - Financial Times - November 3

Will Israel annex the occupied West Bank after Trump takes office?

A senior Israeli official has said openly that the West Bank should become part of Israel, not a future Palestine. Could it happen under Trump?

Residents of Lebanese border town 'determined to stay' as rockets fly above

The residents of Rmeish have decided to stay despite the fighting raging all around them.

Lebanese flee ancient city of Baalbek as Israel attacks

IDF offensive against Hizbollah continues while US struggles to negotiate end to war

World - Financial Times - October 30

Israel demolishes village at the heart of Bedouin minority's struggle over land

Israeli authorities have completed the demolition of a village at the heart of a yearslong struggle by the members of its Arab Bedouin minority against relocation plans

World - ABC News - November 14

Israel strikes historic Lebanese city of Baalbek after ordering evacuation

Tens of thousands flee as the Israeli military says it struck fuel depots belonging to Hezbollah.

Israeli forces capture senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon, Israeli military official says

An Israeli military official says Israeli naval forces have captured a senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon

World - ABC News - November 3

A Lebanese Town Tries to Stay Out of Israel-Hezbollah War

While Lebanese are united against Israel’s onslaught, some in southern towns where Hezbollah does not hold sway say they feel caught between Israel’s firepower and Hezbollah’s fighters.

Top stories - The New York Times - November 3

Israel fights Hizbollah at Lebanese crusader castle as forces push north

Fierce clashes in Chamaa injured four UN peacekeepers on Friday in one of Israel’s deepest advances into the country so far

World - Financial Times - 4 days ago

Israeli strike kills Lebanese soldier as Hezbollah fires 185 rockets at Israel

Israeli strikes have killed over 40 Lebanese troops since the start of the war between Israel and Hezbollah, even as Lebanon's military has largely kept to the sidelines.

Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire appears to hold and Lebanese begin streaming south to their homes

A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah appeared to be holding on Wednesday, as residents in cars heaped with belongings streamed back toward southern Lebanon despite ...

World - ABC News - 4 hours ago

Strike on Gaza Hospital Destroys UN Supplies, Palestinian Officials Say

Israeli troops had withdrawn from Kamal Adwan Hospital after arresting most of the medical staff. The Israeli military said it was “unaware of a strike” there.

World - The New York Times - October 31

Trump’s demolition of the US state

One irony of the president-elect’s campaign of destruction is that the government is in dire need of reform

Business - Financial Times - November 19

Israel's Netanyahu says goal is to keep Hezbollah from border

World - Yahoo News - November 3

Israel hits 10 targets at Lebanon-Syria border, rights group says

World - Yahoo News - 6 hours ago

Lebanese Health Ministry says death toll in Lebanon crosses 3,000 in 13-month Israel-Hezbollah war

World - ABC News - November 4

Israel keeps up fierce Lebanon bombardment and awaits Hezbollah response on truce proposal

BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike flattened a building near one of Beirut’s busiest traffic junctions Friday, shaking the Lebanese capital as Israel kept up its intensified bombardment even as ...

Hezbollah fires about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel in heaviest barrage in weeks

Hezbollah has fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel, wounding seven people in one of the militant group’s heaviest barrages in months

World - ABC News - 2 days ago

Israel strikes crowded neighborhood in Beirut as part of its biggest attacks on Lebanese capital since start of the war

World - ABC News - 17 hours ago

Middle East crisis live: Aid entering Gaza is lowest in months, says Unrwa, as US deadline approaches

US had warned Israel a month ago that it had just 30 days to address humanitarian crisis. Images sent over the news wires show smoke billowing over Beirut after Israeli strikes on the southern ...

World - The Guardian - November 12

Torture Is a Russian Tactic in Occupied Ukraine, Civilians Say

Moscow is employing a variety of tactics, including torture and forced Russian citizenship, to try to obliterate Ukrainian identity, former detainees and human rights groups say.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 30

Demolition Man 4K Limited Edition Gets Big Preorder Discount At Amazon

Demolition Man Limited Edition on 4K Blu-ray $37.43 (was ...

Tech - GameSpot - November 8

Protesters in separatist Georgian region occupy government buildings, calling for leader's ouster

Opposition protesters in Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia have refused to cede control of key government buildings seized during rallies on Friday during which at least 14 people were ...

World - ABC News - November 17

Village homes for commuters near a station – in pictures

From a renovated farmhouse to a period home, all have easy access to rail links to towns and cities Continue reading...

World - The Guardian - November 1

Center Parcs plans first Scottish holiday village

The project, near Hawick, promises an investment of £350m and could create 1,200 jobs.

A French village honors a U.S. soldier killed in WWII

Gerri Eisenhauer's father, Private William Walters, died in World War II just a few months before she was born – killed in action in France, according to a brief telegram. Eisenhauer believed she ...

How a quiet village turned into the Land of Oz for Wicked

It was exciting times for residents as Munchkinland emerged from a field in their quiet community.

The ancient Lebanese valley being pounded by Israeli bombs

The Bekaa, known for its Roman temples, is now a focus of the IDF’s campaign against Hizbollah and paying a heavy cost

World - Financial Times - November 19

Lebanese soccer player in coma after lsraeli strikes

Leading Lebanese footballer Celine Haidar is in a medically induced coma after she was critically wounded in an Israeli strike near her home in Beirut's southern suburbs, putting her international ...

Sports - ESPN - 4 days ago

Lebanese Army taking 'necessary measures' to implement ceasefire

World - Yahoo News - 2 hours ago

Kamala Harris, Border Enforcer

Behind the scenes, the president and vice president conducted a campaign to get the crisis under control.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 30

Office politics: After appeal to colleagues, House freshman gets workspace once occupied by his great-grandfather

An incoming Republican congressman is offering bipartisan thanks to his future colleagues for helping him to snag an official workspace that was once occupied by his great-grandfather. Tom Barrett, ...

Politics - The Hill - 5 days ago

From the Women’s March to Occupy, the mass protests of the 2010s were a mixed bag. What lessons can we learn?

Many features of recent protest movements also held them back – but years of study have made journalist Vincent Bevins believe solidarity and structure can effect change. The day after Trump’s 2017 ...

World - The Guardian - 5 days ago

How Four Posts on Instagram Destroyed Her Life

On Oct. 7, an Israeli college student opened her phone. What she did next landed her in prison.

Top stories - The New York Times - November 3

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