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SvennoJ 3 hours ago

Israel threatens southern Lebanon residents with imminent attack

Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee has warned people in the Lebanese village of Yanouh, in the southern Tyre district, that the army plans to attack soon.

Adraee said in a statement that the military was targeting “Hezbollah infrastructure”.

He posted a map of a building in the village and said residents nearby should evacuate immediately.


Hezbollah is against surrendering to US, Israel: Group chief

The group’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem says the role of the resistance is to confront the enemy when the state and the army fail to do so.

Speaking at a ceremony held by Hezbollah’s Women’s Action Unit, he stressed that the group was prepared for the highest levels of cooperation with the Lebanese army, adding that the group agreed to a defensive strategy that leveraged Lebanon’s strength and its resistance.

He, however, said that Hezbollah was against any framework that would lead to surrendering to the US and Israel.


Israeli army says attack on building in southern Lebanon on hold

The Israeli military says it has put a planned air strike on a southern Lebanon site on hold after the Lebanese army requested access to investigate the area.

The army’s Arabic-speaking spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said on X that the Israeli forces “decided to allow this, and accordingly, the air strike was temporarily frozen”.


UNIFIL says peacekeepers joined Lebanese army on inspection in southern village

Kandice Ardiel, a spokesperson for the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL), says peacekeepers went to “support an inspection” being conducted by the Lebanese army in the southern village of Yanouh.

“Peacekeepers did not enter any buildings and left after the activity. We later received information through the Mechanism that the [Israeli army] intended to conduct a strike on Yanouh,” Ardiel said in a statement. “We reminded them that this is a violation of resolution 1701.”

Passed in 2006, UN Resolution 1701 calls for a cessation of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel and the establishment of a weapons-free zone between the so-called Blue Line – the unofficial border between the two countries – and Lebanon’s Litani River.

Over the past months, Israel has carried out near-daily attacks in Lebanon despite a ceasefire agreement that was reached with Hezbollah last year.



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Award-winning Palestinian reporter Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, joins us to discuss his new piece for New York magazine about Israel's surveillance practices. It describes how Palestinians throughout the genocide in Gaza have been watched, tracked and often killed by Israeli forces who have access to their most intimate details, including phone and text records, social relations, drone footage, biometric data and artificial intelligence tools.

This all-encompassing surveillance system is "reshaping how people speak, how they're moving, how they're even thinking," says Mhawish. "It manufactured behavior for people, so they shrink their lives to reduce risk, they rehearse what version of themselves feels safest to present, and that creates an enormous psychological burden."

Mhawish also describes the terror of when his family's house was bombed, killing two of his cousins and two neighbors in an attack he says was linked to Israeli surveillance of his reporting activities. "I was being watched and tracked," he says.