Who will succeed Hassan Nasrallah?
The king is dead, long live the king? The question is not as simple in the case of the expected succession process of the former Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, whose death was...
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In Lebanon, a world has collapsed
At dawn, men are busy in still-smoking perimeters, walking on heaps of ashes. Around gaping craters from which iron rebars sprout, rows of disfigured buildings threaten to collapse. The southern...
Lyana ALAMEDDINE, Caroline HAYEK, Stéphanie KHOURI, Olivia Le Poidevin , 28 September 2024
Over 1,000 killed, 6,000 injured in 10 days in Lebanon
Since Oct. 8, 2023, when Hezbollah opened a support front for Gaza in southern Lebanon against Israel, Lebanon has seen 1,640 killed – including 104 children and 194 women – and 8,404 wounded and...
28 September 2024
As the war intensifies, can Lebanon’s hospitals bear the brunt?
Lebanon has experienced its roughest two weeks since the onset of the war between Hezbollah and Israel on Oct. 8, and its hospitals have been strained by the mounting number of casualties. The...
Stephanie Bechara, 28 September 2024
'I would have preferred that it was me and not Nasrallah': The immense grief of Hezbollah supporters
The strike that killed Hassan Nasrallah sent tremors across Beirut. In neighborhoods on the other side of the capital, people ran for shelter, thinking they were under attack. News that the party's...
Testimonies gathered by Dany MOUDALLAL, Sally Abou AlJoud et Ghadir Hamadi, 28 September 2024
Death of Nasrallah: All scenarios are now on the table
An earthquake. A shock. A night of horror watching the southern suburbs of Beirut being bombarded by the Israeli army. And the beginning of a new world, where all scenarios seem possible, for...
Anthony SAMRANI, 28 September 2024
Hezbollah confirms death of Hassan Nasrallah
BEIRUT — Hezbollah has officially announced the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah, in an announcement released around 2:30 on Saturday afternoon. The long-time party leader, known as an...
L'Orient Today staff, 28 September 2024
An Iranian plane prevented from landing at Beirut airport after Israeli threats
The Israeli army hacked the control tower of Beirut International Airport on Saturday, threatening an Iranian plane that was supposed to land there and forced it to turn back, according to...
28 September 2024
Hassan Nasrallah, the wars that shaped the myth
It is 6:30 in the Lebanese capital. The walls are swaying. The southern suburb of Beirut has just been hit by the largest Israeli strike since the 2006 war. The bombs shook all of Beirut, the...
Stéphanie KHOURI, 23 February 2025
Strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, the fate of Nasrallah: how to explain Hezbollah’s silence
The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had succeeded in assassinating, in a lethal strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut the day before, the all-powerful secretary-general of Hezbollah,...
Salah HIJAZI, 28 September 2024
'The price of this war is much too high': On Beirut sidewalks, the great distress of refugees from the southern suburbs
Since last Monday, and the massive Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon and the Bekaa, more than a hundred thousand inhabitants of these regions have had to flee. Friday evening, a new exodus, in...
Testimonies gathered by Lyana ALAMEDDINE and Sally Abou Aljoud, 28 September 2024
Israeli army says it has killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday evening
The Israeli army said in a statement published by its Arabic-speaking spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, that the strike last night on the southern suburbs of Beirut also killed "the commander of...
28 September 2024
Over 1,000 killed in less than 2 weeks, death of Nasrallah: What we know
Hezbollah officially announced the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah, in an announcement released around 2:30 on Saturday afternoon. The announcement follows a particularly grueling night...
L’Orient Today staff, 28 September 2024
Israel mobilises three reserve battalions amid escalating conflict with Hezbollah
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Israel's military said on Saturday it has mobilised three reserve battalions to bolster its Central Command defence amid escalating conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Adam Makary, 28 September 2024
Israel says 'extensive' strikes hit dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon
The Israeli military said it struck dozens of Hezbollah targets Saturday in east and south Lebanon, as a surface-to-surface missile fired from Lebanon fell in an open area in central Israel....
28 September 2024
L’Orient Today staff, 28 September 2024
Missile launched from Lebanon towards Jerusalem intercepted by Israeli army; Houthis say they targeted Tel Aviv airport: Day 358 of the Gaza and Lebanon wars
23:37 Beirut Time Thank you for following our live coverage today. Be sure to come back tomorrow for the latest updates on the wars in Lebanon and Gaza. Goodnight! 22:55...
