Late afternoon sun highlights the oak trees I stand amidst, the utter quiet broken only by birds’ chirping. It is easy to forget that the southern Lebanese hilltop I’m walking on was once the base of intense resistance against the Zionist occupation forces with their bases on surrounding hilltops and occupying villages below. From 1985… Read More Mleeta: Lebanon’s Resistance Museum
(March 29) A day before the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ), we hold a press conference, to reiterate the reasons for such a march.
*monument at Maroun ar Ras, site of Hezbollah defeat of Israeli army Some time after descending further south from the former Khiam prison, the fortified fence separating Lebanon and occupied Palestine appears, as do the red-roofed Israeli homes in the formerly mixed Palestinian and Lebanese town of Metulli: M notes that this town was an… Read More Picnics at the border: Hezbollah resistance in Bint Jbeil and Maroun ar Ras
*the thick fog in rural southern Lebanon hills was an ally to Lebanese resistance against the Zionist occupation soldiers in their hilltop military bases. I go south to stay with M and his family, and over the next week see a number of Lebanon’s significant sites of resistance and victory over the Zionist occupation of… Read More the Khiam prison is now open
(March 28) Two days before Land Day and the GMJ, we visit Sabra and Shatila. An impoverished Beirut neighbourhood and Palestinian refugee camp in the same vicinity, Sabra and Shatila are known for the savage massacre of Palestinian refugees and poor Lebanese Shiites (internally displaced from southern Lebanon by the Israeli occupational brutalities) which killed… Read More the Sabra and Shatila massacre
Yesterday, Palestinian Land Day, protests took place in Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and world-wide. In Palestine, a 20 year old non-violent protestor, Mohmoud Zakot, was assassinated in northern Gaza by an Israeli soldier. In Bethlehem, Maan news reported, in addition to mass injuries, three were critically injured, “one of whom was hit in the… Read More Palestinian Land Day and the Global March to Jerusalem in Lebanon: the people
In Gaza 