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Israel’s Gaza War Fuels Hamas’s Popularity in Lebanon

INKSTICK/1.24.24 — St a seaside cafe in southern Lebanon’s Saida, 32-year-old Ahmad* recounted a family lineage of exile that is familiar among Palestinians in the diaspora. When Zionist militias...

With all eyes on Lebanon’s south, number of Syrians leaving from northern shores spikes

SYRIA DIRECT/12.14.23 — Smoking his way through a pack of cigarettes in a Beirut cafe, 22-year-old Salah Abrush calls his friend, Feras, who arrived in Germany in September. When he hangs up, Salah...

Snowball effects of Lebanon’s economic crisis fall hard on Syrian children

SYRIA DIRECT/10.23.23 — At a learning center nestled in Beirut’s Hamra neighborhood, a cacophony of voices rang out one day in October. Inside, children pointed to giraffe, elephant and octopus...

Palestinians in Lebanon’s largest refugee camp brace for another round of conflict

THE NEW HUMANITARIAN/10.25.23 — Hostilities between Israel and Hamas in Gaza are threatening to spill over into Lebanon, raising fears in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp for Palestinians that residents...

Hezbollah-Backed Palestinian Fighters in Lebanon Prepare for War

INKSTICK/10.23.23 — Palestinian fighters in Lebanon are ready for battle, as the country’s southern border emerges as a potential second front in the war between Hamas and Israel...

New Hezbollah museum puts spotlight on Syria intervention

THE NEW ARAB/9.28.23 — Tourists arrive in hordes each year to Lebanon’s city of Baalbek, eager to see its ancient Roman temples...

Lebanon: Inside Hezbollah’s arsenal

MIDDLE EAST EYE/6.2.23 — The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah put on a display of some of its previously secret arsenal and fighting power last week, extending a rare invitation to the media to visit...

Inside Hezbollah’s wargames near the Israeli border

AXIOS/5.24.23 — The Lebanese Hezbollah militant group held a rare demonstration of the group's fighting power this week in an apparent attempt to remind the Lebanese people, Israel and Iran about its...

Palestinian Islamic Jihad calls the shots in Gaza from Lebanon

AXIOS/5.17.23 — In last week’s escalation between Gaza and Israel, the shots were called by leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group based in Lebanon — now a strategic center of operations for...
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