What kind of leadership does Lebanon need in this moment of crisis? 'Exactly the opposite of what it has.' The words of Ayman Mhanna More 👇 on #f24

The road to #Beirut airport has been bombed tonight. #Lebanon has only one civilian airport, and this is where fleeing people are evacuating from.

The Atlantic’s Kim Ghattas, who is currently in Beirut, tells me about Israel’s intense bombardment of the city and why she thinks militant groups like Hezbollah cannot be defeated without a real political alternative.

INDEPENDENT: 365 days of horror since October 7 #TomorrowsPapersToday

"The only way to achieve security is by transforming your enemy into your partner." Peace is possible Aziz Abu Sarah מעוז معوز Maoz נשים עושות שלום

Over the past year, our team reviewed hundreds of clips of airstrikes released on social media by the IDF - systematically geolocating them and matching them to the civilians who were actually killed. The result is our most powerful investigation to date. idf-tweets-gaza.airwars.org

Emotional reading this piece by Layal Abou Rahal- ليال about MEA — only carrier still serving Beirut despite Israeli strikes. "MEA is the national carrier and it has to serve Lebanese, just like a doctor must treat the wounded during war”. - Retired captain Eli Rasi france24.com/en/live-news/2…

Issam Abdallah. Freind, colleague, true human. A man always much more interested in the pursuit of life than cataloguing the death that invariably surrounded his lens. A man who did not want to be a martyr. Killed — it’s still unbelievable — by the Israeli army one year ago.

🇷🇼 #Rwandan authorities are perpetrating human rights abuses in detention facilities, including torturing inmates, Human Rights Watch said, denouncing a lack of accountability. FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih is joined by Senior Researcher Clementine de Montjoye who shares some of the testimonies she heard 👇

How did French-Italian shotgun cartridges end up being used against protesters in Iran, despite sanctions? An extract of the two-year long investigation by ERSHAD ALIJANI and Julie Dungelhoeff 👇

It is rare to get reporting like this out of #Nabatieh these days, such is the intensity of the Israeli bombardments of south Lebanon. France24 reporters Catherine Norris Trent Jenna Le Bras Amar Al Hameedawi عمار الحميداوي travelled there this week. They found a city in ruins. Watch 👇 #f24

On the surface it's gangs, but behind their appearance inevitably lies a tangled interplay of geopolitics and corruption on the part of several regional state actors: How gangsters took over Gaza’s aid routes ft.com/content/6a0396…

This is your chance to come behind the scenes of #NotreDame's reconstruction ⚒️⛪ Our reporter Mélina Huet, who has had rare access to the construction work in the last 4 years, told Nadia Massih more about her upcoming #revisited report on #F24AroundTheWorld ⤵️

Simply astonishing advances by Syrian rebels into Aleppo. In just a few hours they’ve overrun parts of the city they couldn’t take in 4 years of fighting a decade ago. It goes to show how much the Assad regime was depending on Hezbollah and Iran for its survival.

The Assad regime will go down in history as one of the ugliest, bloodiest and most brutal regimes ever known. The post-Assad era is unknown. Everything is possible. But this is a truly historic moment of freedom that is worth celebrating, big time, regardless of what comes next

To these people I reply: Sednaya, Ghouta, Khan Sheikhoun, Yarmouk, Daraya, Hama

A reminder of the horrors detainees were subjected to in Syria’s #Saydnaya military prison documented by Amnesty International

This account of HTS officials asking Syrian state bureaucrats what their jobs are is just superb ft.com/content/7efc20…

💥#Breaking: @IsraelPolice yesterday raided a legendary & wonderful Jerusalem institution, the Educational Bookshop, whose owners, Mahmoud & Ahmed Muna– friends of mine for years– spent the night in jail for the crime of selling books, aka "suspicion of violating public order."