Greater Israel in progress

• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will keep attacking Iran and Lebanon, vowing to “safeguard” Israeli interests in any potential ceasefire or peace deal.
• Israel has kept up its barrage of strikes on Lebanon, targeting Beirut and its suburbs, as well as the Nabatieh and Tyre areas, where an attack killed a medic.
• Israeli attacks have damaged or destroyed six of the seven main bridges over the Litani River, which splits the north of Lebanon from the south, in recent days, while the UN estimates 1.2 million people in Lebanon are now displaced.
• Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has told an Israeli radio programme that “the new Israeli border must be the Litani [River]”.

Israeli strikes hit towns in Lebanon’s Tyre, Nabatieh districts

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report a new wave of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon.

One strike hit the town of Selaa, in the Tyre district, while another hit Zawtar al-Sharqiyah in the Nabatieh district.

Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war when Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel on March 2 to avenge the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a US-Israeli attack.

Israel has since launched strikes across Lebanon, killing at least 1,039 people, and sent ground troops into the country’s south.

Syrian army reports rocket attack on Hasakah base from Iraqi territory

The Syrian army has said a military base near the town of Al-Yarubiyah, in the suburbs of Hasakah, has been hit with five rockets launched from Iraq, according to state media.

Coordination and communication were established with the Iraqi side regarding the incident, SANA news agency reported, adding that the Iraqi army initiated a combing and search operation for the perpetrators.

Palestinians struggle as Gaza endures severe fuel and gas shortages

Palestinians in Gaza say the cost of electricity provided by private generators has surged, even as residents increasingly rely on them after Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave destroyed its public power network.

With fuel supplies severely limited and prices at record highs compared with pre-war levels, the cost of electricity has risen sharply. The price per kilowatt-hour has increased from about 2.5 shekels ($0.80) to between 20 and 30 shekels ($7 and $10) – nearly 10 times higher – placing it beyond the reach of many households.

Although Israeli forces have permitted some fuel and gas shipments since the October “truce” agreement with Hamas, Palestinian sources say that only 14.7 percent of the amount agreed upon in the “ceasefire’s” humanitarian protocol has entered the territory.

Fuel prices remain volatile. At the height of the war, as a result of Israeli import restrictions, diesel reached about 90 shekels ($29) per litre. Prices are still roughly triple their pre-war level of 7 shekels ($3.30), pushing up transportation costs.

Israel’s war, which has killed more than 75,000 Palestinians, has left Gaza facing overlapping crises affecting all aspects of life for more than 2 million Palestinians. Most homes lack reliable electricity and gas, and many families cannot afford alternative energy sources.

Limited supplies

According to Gaza government data from this month, Israeli authorities have only allowed 1,190 fuel trucks into the enclave out of the 8,050 that had been expected since the “ceasefire” began. The agreement stipulates that 50 fuel trucks be allowed into Gaza per day. That amounts to a compliance rate of just 14.7 percent, explaining the severe shortages.

Iyad al-Shorbaji, the director general of Gaza’s Petroleum Authority, said that the territory requires between 350 and 400 cooking gas trucks per month, as well as 15 million litres (4 million gallons) of diesel and 2.5 million litres (660,000 gallons) of gasoline.

He told Al Jazeera that current supplies fall far short, with only 100 gas trucks entering monthly. Fuel shipments, he added, are largely channelled through international organisations for use in health and public services, alongside limited commercial quantities of no more than 3 million litres (390,000 gallons) per month.

Al-Shorjabi expressed hope that fuel and gas supplies would improve, but said that it remains dependent on Israeli procedures controlling the crossings into Gaza, which he described as part of the “policies of suffocation and restriction” imposed on the Palestinian enclave.

Al-Shorbaji warned that the deficit is disrupting the economic and service sectors, with some facilities forced to operate by buying gas originally allocated to stations or households.

Child shot dead by Israeli forces in southern Gaza

A child has been shot dead by Israeli forces in his tent in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza, while a Palestinian has been wounded by Israeli gunfire in Sheikh Nasser, east of Khan Younis.

Our colleagues on the ground report that artillery shelling is ongoing in eastern Gaza City and Khan Younis, while the Israeli navy is opening fire on the western parts of the Strip.

Three Palestinians injured in West Bank settler attack

Three Palestinians have been injured in a settler attack near the village of Beit Imrin, northwest of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported. The settlers assaulted them, damaged the vehicles and detained them before releasing them later, the report added.

A wave of assaults and arrests

Despite the settler attacks, it is Palestinians who have largely found themselves arrested by Israeli forces.

On Saturday night, settlers raided al-Fandaqumiya, south of Jenin, setting fire to homes and vehicles before moving to the neighbouring village of Silat al-Dhaher, where at least two more homes were torched and six residents injured. According to local Palestinian networks, Israeli forces did not intervene to stop the attackers or prevent them from moving between villages.

Palestinian activists also reported that, in Jiljiliya, northeast of Ramallah, on March 17, settlers raided the home of Yousef Muzahim, and then called the Israeli army to arrest him and his two sons, aged 12 and 14.

Similar incidents were reported in Salfit governorate and the South Hebron Hills.

Land seizures and demolitions

Amid a longstanding campaign to seize Palestinian land throughout the occupied West Bank, the past week has seen a continuation of Israeli land seizure and agricultural destruction in the territory.

Israeli bulldozers were filmed uprooting olive trees across multiple days in Nilin along the separation wall, while in Nablus governorate’s Huwara, more than 100 dunams (0.1 square kilometres) containing more than 1,500 olive trees were bulldozed. In the southern West Bank’s Masafer Yatta, settlers destroyed more than 130 olive trees in Khirbet Mughayir al-Abeed by reportedly releasing livestock into cultivated land for them to feed on.

And on March 16, Israeli authorities issued military orders to seize 268 dunams (0.268 square kilometres) “for military purposes” belonging to families in Tubas and Tammun, in the northeast West Bank, followed two days later by soldiers arriving at Tammun with an excavator to begin preparation work for a new road. The orders came days after the March 15 killing of four members of a Palestinian family, including two children, travelling by car in Tammun, by Israeli forces.

In the Jordan Valley’s Fasayel al-Wusta, Israeli forces demolished the last remaining home in the community, after other families had been forcibly displaced months earlier by settler violence – despite the Israeli High Court reportedly having approved an agreement permitting the family to stay. Another demolition by the Israeli Civil Administration was photographed taking place on Monday in Khirbet al-Marajim, southwest of Duma, in the Nablus governorate.

Roads blocked, communities isolated

Since March 17, settlers have been massing nightly at more than 10 road junctions – from Zaatara and Yitzhar to Homesh and as-Sawiya – attacking Palestinian vehicles. On Sunday, Route 60 from Sinjil to Homesh was closed entirely for the Beit Imrin settler’s funeral procession, with all Palestinian entrances shut and movement restricted to ambulances with prior coordination.

Intensifying movement restrictions put in place by authorities since the start of the Iran war, settlers additionally closed the entrances of many other Palestinian communities, according to reports from local Palestinians.

The settler road blockades had begun after settlers declared that “a red line has been crossed in the persecution of the pioneer settlement”, in response to Israeli military actions dismantling a small number of illegal outposts – grievances that spilled into stone-throwing attacks on Palestinian vehicles at nightly junction gatherings.

According to Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem, since the war on Iran began on February 28, at least 14 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, including two minors – eight by the military, six by armed settlers – a rate with little recent precedent.

Israeli air strikes hit towns in southern Lebanon

Multiple Israeli air strikes have hit towns and suburbs in southern Lebanon, our correspondent on the ground reports. An air strike struck a popular housing area near the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, while another hit the nearby al-Maashouq area.

Two other air strikes hit the towns of Kfar Tebnit and Mahrouna in southern Lebanon.

Israeli air strikes target Tyre in southern Lebanon

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that an Israeli air strike has hit the city of Burj Shemali in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon. As we reported earlier, the Israeli military issued forced evacuation threats for four specific areas in Tyre.

Israel’s foreign minister says Lebanon’s expulsion of Iranian envoy ‘justified’

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says Lebanon’s move to expel Iran’s ambassador is “justified” due to Iran’s support for Hezbollah.

Hezbollah lawmaker says group will resist Israel’s effort to occupy part of southern Lebanon

Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah has vowed the group will fight back against Israeli troops planning to take control of Lebanese territory south of the Litani River. Speaking to Reuters news agency, Fadlallah said Israeli occupation of Lebanon’s south would pose an “existential threat” to the Lebanese state.

As we reported earlier, Israel’s Defence Minister Katz said the army plans to impose a “security zone” in southern Lebanon stretching to the Litani River, indefinitely displacing hundreds of thousands of Lebanese residents who have evacuated the area.

Forced evacuation threats escalate in Tyre

Here in Tyre, southern Lebanon, we have had another series of forced evacuation threats from the Israeli army. They were issued for four specific areas inside the city. Three of those have been hit in the last hour.

A large number of residents have left but there still remain up to 25,000 civilians. Half of those live here and the other half is those displaced from smaller towns and villages around southern Lebanon. They’ve come here because it is a distribution point for aid.

We’ve seen a lot of activity along the coast and in the hills around Tyre this morning as the Israeli army continue to target south Lebanon. 

Almost 700 Palestinians killed in Gaza since start of ‘ceasefire’

More than 900 attacks on healthcare sector

Gaza’s healthcare network has been decimated by Israel’s war on the enclave, with more than 930 attacks on the sector recorded since October 2023, according to World Health Organization (WHO) figures from last month.

All 36 hospitals in the Strip have suffered damage due to Israeli attacks, the WHO said, while only half of all hospitals are partially functional.

Palestinian healthcare workers have also been targeted throughout the war. Humanitarian group Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) said at least 1,722 medical workers were killed between October 2023 and October 2025 – an average of more than two killed every day.

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Israeli air attacks hit southern Lebanese towns

Two Israeli air attacks hit the town of Majdal Zoun in southern Lebanon, our correspondent on the ground reports.

Another Israeli air attack hit the town of Qlailah in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon.

Two Israelis injured in Hezbollah missile attack

At least two Israelis, both men in their 50s, have been injured in a Hezbollah missile attack on the northern city of Karmiel.

Israel’s emergency services noted that the men were hurt by a blast and shrapnel.

US terrorists demand only terrorists can have guns:

US seeks Hamas ‘political surrender’ in new Gaza plan

Analysts say a new US disarmament proposal exploits the regional war to enforce inequitable plan for Gaza.


_{Boys walk past the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip on February 8}

United States envoys have presented a written demand for the complete disarmament of Hamas and all its allied Palestinian armed factions in the Gaza Strip, as part of a plan to ensure what experts say is the complete “political surrender” of the group.

The document, presented by US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” during meetings in Cairo in mid-March, advances a controversial US vision for the enclave, as Israel’s ongoing war and military occupation continue to ravage the territory and its two million residents, in the aftermath of its two-year genocidal campaign that killed more than 72,000 people, mostly children and women. Thousands more are missing, lost under the rubble, and believed dead.

According to media reports, the proposal pushes forward Trump’s 20-point plan, centred on the second phase of the US-brokered October “ceasefire” agreement for Gaza. Under the US framework, Israeli troops – which currently occupy more than half of the enclave – will withdraw, and reconstruction will begin only once Hamas and other armed groups surrender their weapons.

Appearing before the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Nickolay Mladenov, the Trump-appointed Board of Peace envoy to Gaza, urged Palestinian factions to accept the framework “without delay”. He claimed the disarmament process rests on “reciprocity”, stating that “decommissioning proceeds in parallel with staged withdrawal”.

Footing the political bill for a regional war

However, rather than a genuine diplomatic proposal, Palestinian factions and political observers view the US plan as a coercive ultimatum designed to bypass previous agreements and enforce a one-sided reality.

Wesam Afifa, a Gaza-based political analyst who has closely followed the Cairo meetings, noted that the proposed document has been presented as more of a “threat message” than a negotiating initiative.

Afifa pointed out that the new US approach abandons Israel’s and the US’s obligations laid out under previous agreements in favour of a sweeping demand for the surrender of all weapons, including personal firearms, and links the enclave’s desperately needed reconstruction directly to this condition.

He identified three main shifts in US strategy for Gaza, which are now being pushed by Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and mediators, and which seek to enforce new realities on the ground:

• ‘Militarising’ the NCAG: Established under UN Security Council Resolution 2803 to oversee the day-to-day civilian rebuilding of the enclave, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) has had a shift in its mandate. At the UN, Mladenov confirmed the committee has begun “vetting thousands of civilian police candidates”. Afifa said this is a clear attempt to saddle the body with an early security role before addressing the humanitarian disaster, turning it into an enforcement tool rather than a purely civilian administration.
• A ‘one-sided security doctrine’: Despite Mladenov’s claims of reciprocity, Afifa warned that mediators have reduced the diplomatic process to the single condition of Palestinian disarmament. “Israel is to be granted a free hand to conduct security operations against any perceived threats,” Afifa said. He noted that, at the same time, Palestinians are being asked to surrender their weapons without receiving any concrete guarantees for reconstruction, a halt to military operations or an Israeli withdrawal.
• ‘Piecemeal’ reconstruction: The plan seeks to deal with Palestinian areas “in instalments”. Reconstruction would be linked to disarmament: areas deemed to have surrendered their weapons would receive aid, while those suspected of retaining arms would be isolated and treated as “rogue zones”.

Ultimately, Afifa argued, these conditions bypass the phased framework previously agreed upon. “Gaza is being forced to pay a political bill for the ongoing war on Iran and Lebanon,” Afifa said. “The aim is to strike this regional axis, and now it is time to make Gaza pay part of that price.”

Rival armed groups and international forces

US officials have indicated that Hamas could be offered amnesty and targeted investments if it and allied factions surrender their weaponry. At the UN, Mladenov announced that a decommissioning framework had been developed with guarantors including the US, Egypt, Turkiye and Qatar, while countries like Indonesia, Morocco and Kazakhstan have committed troops to a temporary International Stabilization Force (ISF).

But Hamas and its allied resistance factions remain deeply suspicious of both the security and financial promises.

According to sources close to Hamas, quoted by Reuters, the group is highly unlikely to relinquish its rifles, fearing vulnerability to rival armed factions operating in Gaza, some of which reportedly receive backing from Israel. While the US plan demands all groups disarm, Hamas fears Israel will turn a blind eye to, or even actively arm, rival clan-based armed groups to police the Strip.

Furthermore, Palestinian analysts and faction leaders argue that the financial incentives promised by Washington are simply not there. While Trump has attracted approximately $7bn in reconstruction pledges in February, primarily from Gulf nations, only a fraction has materialised in the US-backed NCAG funds.

The widening regional conflict sparked by US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 has also severely complicated the financial logistics, as donor mechanisms have stalled.

Iran would be wise not to enter any 'peace' deal with US/Israel. They'll just be treated like Lebanon and Gaza.

Israel hinders repair of damaged water infra deepening Gaza’s health crisis

The United Nations estimates that approximately 70 percent of Gaza City’s water supply infrastructure is currently disrupted. Municipal workers on the ground say the devastation is systemic and deliberate.

“The occupation has destroyed more than 72 water wells in Gaza City,” Hosny Afana, a municipality spokesman, told Al Jazeera. “Over 150,000 metres of water networks have been destroyed, along with four main reservoirs. The water system has been severely devastated.”

Despite the October 2025 “ceasefire”, Israel has continued to attack Gaza, killing more than 700 Palestinians while maintaining curbs on the entry of aid and other goods into Gaza – home to 2.3 million people, most of whom remain displaced. Israel, which was expected to withdraw from Gaza after the truce, still occupies more than half of Gaza.

There is a wide range of goods that Israel has banned or heavily restricted from entering Gaza. This includes machinery, construction materials and even medical equipment.

Efforts to restore the network are being actively hindered by Israeli military policies:

• Yellow Line barrier: Repairs to the crucial Mekorot water supply line have stalled because the infrastructure lies east of the so-called “Yellow Line”, which demarcates Gaza territory under Israeli military control.
• Dual-use ban: Israel classifies many basic components needed to repair water and sanitation systems as “dual-use” items. This allows Israeli authorities to systematically block their entry into the besieged enclave on vaguely defined security grounds.

Denied access to new materials, municipal maintenance teams are forced to work with whatever debris they can find in the rubble. “These pipes, connectors, and fittings are essential for maintenance work,” said Tareq Shuhaibar, a maintenance engineer. “We are searching the outskirts of the city for whatever materials remain, recycling them for repairs.”

Growing health and environmental disaster

The lack of clean water is accelerating a severe public health crisis across the Strip. Doctors report a sharp rise in severe dehydration, kidney complications, and widespread water-borne diseases.

“Water contamination severely affects patients’ health,” Dr Ghazi al-Yazji, a physician at al-Shifa Hospital, told Al Jazeera. “It contains high levels of salts, nitrates, phosphorus and sulphur.”

This immediate medical emergency is rooted in a long-term environmental catastrophe.

A report by the United Nations Environment Programme has previously warned that the collapse of Gaza’s sewage treatment infrastructure and piped systems has likely caused severe contamination of the underground aquifer that supplies water to much of the enclave.

Furthermore, Palestinian officials have highlighted that Israel’s deliberate destruction of the water and sanitation networks has poisoned groundwater and coastal waters, compounding the devastating impacts of the genocidal campaign and leaving families to consume hazardous, polluted water because they have no other choice.

The crisis is being further compounded by the broader regional conflict. Two crossings – Karem Abu Salem (known as Kerem Shalom in Israel) and Rafah – are partially opened, with Rafah meant only for humanitarian cases. The Rafah crossing was shut following the US-Israel war on Iran, but has since been reopened.

Details revealed of Board of Peace plan for Gaza disarmament

The plan would see disarmament – one of the components of the October ceasefire to end Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza – implemented gradually over an eight-month, multiphase process.

The process would see disarmament in exchange for Israel fulfilling its own obligations, including allowing reconstruction materials into Gaza to begin the work of rebuilding the enclave after Israel’s devastation of the territory since October 2023. Israel would also allow an increase in humanitarian aid entering Gaza, and the plan envisions the transfer of the administration of the Palestinian territory to a national committee.

Thus changing the deal, aid and reconstruction materials should have been flowing into Gaza for months already.

Mladenov referred to the plan in general terms in a speech to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday. There he said the plan had been “presented to relevant armed groups” that were urged to accept the framework “without delay”.

“Decommissioning [arms] proceeds in parallel with staged withdrawal,” Mladenov said.

The disarmament of groups in Gaza has been a controversial topic, particularly as Israel has continued to attack the enclave during the ceasefire, killing hundreds of Palestinians. Israel has also not stopped restricting aid into Gaza, driving up prices, even as many in the territory remain displaced and unable to afford basic items.

Hamas has repeatedly refused to give up its arms as long as Israel’s occupation of Gaza continues. Israeli forces maintain a presence in Gaza in areas beyond a “yellow line”, giving it a de facto buffer zone that Palestinians cannot approach without risking being shot. Hamas has also said disarmament is an internal Palestinian matter that should be discussed between factions rather than imposed from the outside.

Plus Israel has been arming rival gangs in Gaza to incite civil war, while still targeting police forces.
No more mention of a peace force (ISF) anymore either...


Hamas and Israel have so far not officially reacted to the details of the Mladenov plan. But Palestinian experts have previously told Al Jazeera that the plan in effect means the “political surrender” of Hamas.

The Board of Peace, created by United States President Donald Trump in the wake of the ceasefire his government brokered, has assumed oversight of Gaza’s administration.

Step-by-step process

The Mladenov plan operates on a step-by-step formula, with transitions between phases only taking place once both sides have fulfilled their obligations.

The first phase, spanning the first two weeks of the deal, would see a complete cessation of military operations by Israel and Hamas as well as the implementation of humanitarian protocols that Israel committed to under the ceasefire. Representatives of the Palestinian national committee – a technocratic body established after the ceasefire with the aim of administering Gaza – would also be allowed into Gaza during this phase to assume all security and administrative responsibilities.

The second phase of the proposal, which would take place between day 16 and day 60, represents the central element of the plan with the beginning of the disarmament process. Hamas and other Palestinian factions would cooperate to remove heavy weapons initially from areas controlled by Israel and then, before 90 days, from areas still controlled by Hamas.

Hamas would also destroy its tunnel network before day 90 of the plan.

How?? Israel isn't even letting equipment in to search for bodies.

For its part, Israel would be required to allow temporary prefabricated residential units to be constructed in locations approved by the Palestinian national committee.

Once all sides have met their obligations in the first three months of the plan, they would move on to the next phase, in which Israeli forces would gradually withdraw to the perimeters of Gaza after a monitoring committee determines that Palestinian factions in Gaza have been disarmed.

Security forces answerable to the Palestinian national committee would be tasked with gathering weapons. That task should be completed by day 251, and if it is, then Israel would withdraw from Gaza with the exception of an undefined security perimeter “until Gaza is secured … from the potential for a return of any terrorist threat”.

It's nothing but a plan for total surrender and continued occupation.


Full reconstruction would also be permitted at this stage as well as the lifting of restrictions on the entry of “dual-use materials”, such as concrete, steel, fertilisers and fuel, which Israel has severely restricted, arguing that they can be used for military purposes even as humanitarian groups emphasise their importance to civilian life.

Right... So no concrete nor steel to rebuild until the population has been fully subjugated. 


As always, Israel keeps shifting the lines to make it unacceptable. Desperate to turn Gaza into Syria, pitting armed gangs against each other while disarming what remains of the civil police. Meanwhile civilians stay in tents in between the toxic rubble, dying from malnutrition and lack of healthcare.

West Bank: Palestinian daily life consumed by new wave of violence as world looks elsewhere

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The military often comes at night, soldiers swarming the neighbourhood, breaking into our homes, destroying our property and arresting people en masse,” says Sari Ahmad, from Al-Fakhiet in the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank, in Palestine. “Our houses are being seized and demolished. And the settler attacks have grown more brutal and deadly. Most of them are armed nowadays and they shoot to kill.”  

Sari, who suffers from diabetes, received treatment from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams until January, however, as violence and movement restrictions have increased, our teams can no longer reach the dozens of people in need in the area. 

In recent weeks, the dramatic escalation in the conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran has added another layer of violence and fear across Palestine. 

Unlike in Israeli towns and cities, where shelters and warning systems are widespread, most Palestinians in the West Bank have no access to shelters or protected spaces. When debris falls, families have little choice but to stay inside and hope.

While the world turns its attention to the flying missiles, the Israeli forces have been intensifying their military operations across the West Bank. Most checkpoints remain closed, which means normal daily activities are now even more time consuming, and at times impossible, for most people, while also carrying the risk of injury or death from unprovoked Israeli attacks.

Violence by Israeli settlers has increased in several areas across the West Bank. Residents report settlers entering Palestinian villages or farmland while openly carrying weapons, as well as attacking Palestinians in their cars as they move from place to place.

Violence and fear shape people’s lives in the West Bank

Between 7 October 2023 and 7 March 2026, 1,071 Palestinians, including 233 children, have been killed in the West Bank, and Jerusalem¹.  Eleven were killed by settlers this year alone. 

“It is shocking and deeply disturbing,” says Salam Yousef, an MSF staff member in the West Bank. “They attack and kill people without consequences — it feels like there is no justice for us, like our lives don’t count.” 

“Last week, they [Israeli forces] shot a family of six who were driving home,” says Yousef. “Only two of the sons survived; they are orphans now — their family was killed in front of them; their brothers were seven and five years old.”

“The psychological toll of this environment is immense,” says Elsa Salvatore, MSF psychotherapist in Nablus. “It’s not only about physical violence from settler attacks or what happens at checkpoints. In our sessions, people often speak about the humiliation they experience daily and the constant uncertainty.”

“They become hyper-vigilant, unable to sleep, always expecting something bad to happen,” says Salvatore. “Most people have stopped making plans. Many suffer from symptoms related to post-traumatic-stress-disorder (PTSD). Although, PTSD is not correctly describing it, because they are not ‘post’ the traumatic experience, they are still in it, continuously experiencing trauma and uncertainty.”

Lebanon doctors say Israel is repeating Gaza's 'scorched earth policy'

Doctors treating the casualties of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have urged world leaders to take action to stop the daily violation of international humanitarian laws.

And, British doctors who've worked in Gaza have spoken about the horrifying similarities between Israeli tactics inside the Palestinian territory and what's happening in Lebanon.