LebanonLeaders of Israel and Lebanon to hold talks for first time since 1993Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Aoun are set to discuss the prospect of a ceasefire on the northern border in a phone call this afternoonBy Melanie Swan1 min read
LebanonIsrael and Lebanon ‘on the same side’ after DC talksPakistan has also proposed a fresh round of US-Iranian negotiations as President Trump said the war between the two is ‘very close to over’By Melanie Swan2 min read
LebanonHezbollah chief calls on Israel and Lebanon to abandon ‘pointless’ negotiationsThe two nations will conduct their first direct talks in decades, with their US ambassadors set to meet in WashingtonBy Melanie Swan1 min read
LebanonIDF troops surround Hezbollah stronghold of Bint JbeilIsraeli and Lebanese negotiators are due for peace talks this weekBy Melanie Swan1 min read
By Andrew FoxI stood in a Hezbollah tunnel. The UK is wrong to treat Israel as the problemLondon should stand with Jerusalem while helping the Lebanese state finally end the grip of Iran’s terror proxy3 min read
By Yaakov KatzLebanese peace talks show how Iran war is reshaping the Middle EastThe Islamic Republic is weaker, Hezbollah is exposed and Israel is testing whether military gains can be turned into diplomatic opportunity4 min read
IsraelNetanyahu announces talks with Lebanese government as strikes continue despite Iran ceasefireHezbollah has continued to launch rockets at Israel, some reaching as far south as Ashdod, while the IDF bombards the terror group’s infrastructureBy Melanie Swan2 min read
By The JC LeaderEchoing Iran’s ceasefire line, Europe undermines Israel and LebanonBy pressing Jerusalem to halt its campaign against Hezbollah, the UK and EU risk reinforcing the very instability they claim to oppose2 min read||April 10, 2026 08:56
Four IDF soldiers killed in LebanonThe UN and IDF are also investigating the deaths of three peacekeepers amid Israel’s expanding military operation in the country’s southern regionsBy Melanie Swan1 min read||March 31, 2026 14:02
IDF to expand ‘buffer zone’ in Lebanon to ‘thwart threat of invasion’Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed last week that the military would occupy large swathes of the area south of the Litani River ‘until security for the residents of the north [of Israel] is ensured’.By Melanie Swan2 min read||March 30, 2026 10:44
By Kemi BadenochMy open letter to UK Jews: all of us battling together, we will defeat this hatred‘As Faith Minister five years ago, what I saw in Whitehall was a significant degree of cultural and religious illiteracy, combined with a reluctance to speak plainly, and a hesitancy to tackle difficult issues for fear of attack, opprobrium, or difficult constituents’6 min read||March 30, 2026 09:37
Watch: IDF releases video of Hezbollah command centre destructionFootage was also released showing a weapons base in Lebanon being destroyedBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read||March 26, 2026 14:46
Israeli woman killed in Hezbollah strike as two others injuredNuriel Dubin, 27, a resident of Moshav Margaliot, was killed during a rocket attack in the Upper GalileeBy Amelie Botbol 2 min read||March 25, 2026 14:45
Israel to occupy ‘security zone’ in southern Lebanon until Hezbollah threat neutralisedDefence Minister Israel Katz said local residents would be evacuated, to be allowed back once the terror group had been defeatedBy Jacob Jaffa3 min read||March 24, 2026 13:39
UAE shuts down ‘Iran-backed terror network’ after Gulf strikesEmirati authorities said the group was posing as a commercial business and that its members have been arrestedBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read||March 20, 2026 12:14
By Jonathan SpyerBeirut-Jerusalem peace talks plans rest on an old fiction: Lebanese sovereigntyThe initiative ignores the likelihood – indeed the certainty – that Hezbollah will refuse to disarm and seems designed to head off decisive Israeli action to push Iran’s proxy north3 min read||March 18, 2026 10:00