Full Coverage: Lebanon

30.08.2006 UN officials, scientific experts, and Mediterranean environment ministers have agreed on an international action plan to clean up last month's oil spill that has become Lebanon's worst-ever environmental disaster.

29.08.2006 Donors must focus on assisting displaced people, clearing mines, and supporting the efforts of a weak Lebanese national government, says Refugees International ahead of an international donors conference Thursday.

25.08.2006 A new report by Amnesty International claims that Israel's destruction of Lebanese civilian infrastructure was an integral part of its military strategy--not "collateral damage." They are calling for an urgent inquiry into the violations.

24.08.2006 President Jacques Chirac announced that France will send 2,000 soldiers to southern Lebanon and hopes to retain command of the U.N. peacekeeping force.

24.08.2006 "I have never seen destruction like this," said UNICEF water and sanitation specialist Branislav Jekic. "Wherever we go, we ask people what they need most and the answer is always the same: water."

24.08.2006 Jewish activists opposing Israeli military aggression in Lebanon and Palestine staged "die-in" protests at New York's Penn Station as well as in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Tuesday morning.

23.08.2006 Two weeks after the onset of a cessation of hostilities the landscape of South Lebanon remains littered with the aftermath of the war. In response, a group of Lebanese citizens picked up brooms, shovels, gloves, and masks in their determination to "sweep up" the destruction left behind during 34 days of war.

23.08.2006 As a result of a rapid assessment mission over the past 10 days, Rick Steiner, an environmental scientist, has concluded that the Lebanon Oil Spill has caused extensive injury to the near shore environment of Lebanon. Steiner has recommended a full underwater survey of the Lebanese coast with towed Remote Observing Vehicles to assess the extent of sea bed oiling.

23.08.2006 President Bush says it is unacceptable to return to the status quo that preceded the recent war between Israel and Lebanon and that the "root causes" of that conflict need to be addressed. Helena Cobban agrees, but having studied the dynamics in the area for some 30 years longer than the president, she'd describe what was wrong before July 12 and the "root causes" quite differently.

22.08.2006 Recent spills off the coasts of the Philippines, India, and Lebanon are impacting ecosystems already stressed from over-fishing, toxic pollution, and climate change. Greenpeace reports.

22.08.2006 There is increasing evidence that Israel instigated a disastrous war on Lebanon largely at the behest of the United States. Analyst Stephen Zunes says one of the most unsettling aspects of the plan is how closely it corresponds to historic anti-semitism: setting up a Jewish proxy to take the fall for unpopular policies.

21.08.2006 Israel warned that it would keep up raids against Hezbollah to prevent the Shiite militia from getting weapons from abroad and said it would prepare for the "next round" of war. The United Nations slammed the raid as a violation of the UN-brokered ceasefire, but Israeli officials remained defiant.

20.08.2006 A balanced peacekeeping force would make an enormous contribution to the U.N. mission in Lebanon. A broad representation could inspire confidence and encourage support from both Israelis and Lebanese.

18.08.2006 "We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that," said Fox News producers Serene Sabbagh and Jomana Karadsheh, adding, "not only are you an instrument of the Bush White House, and Israeli propaganda, you are war mongers with no sense of decency, nor professionalism."

17.08.2006 With a ceasefire finally taking hold Monday, thousands of displaced Lebanese have begun returning home to see what remains of their communities and the humanitarian response is shifting to respond to changing needs.

16.08.2006 Citizens, bloggers, journalists, and NGOs all speak about what is happening today, before the crisis began, and forward beyond the ceasefire.

15.08.2006 Richard Falk's analysis is a deeply moving wake-up call to us all: do something before the UN decays completely as an organization for world peace. And he tells us what can still be done.
Please read it, translate it, send it on to anyone in the media, decision-makers and friends worldwide - urges the Transnational Foundation for Peace's director Jan Oberg.

14.08.2006 Could it be that Israel does not realize that its current campaign may achieve the exact opposite of its intentions, asks international attorney Zaid Al-Ali.

14.08.2006 The U.S. Senate is considering Israel's request for a rush delivery of the cluster munitions it aims to buy. Activists are phoning their senators to oppose the sale of the weapons, which scatter scores of bomblets indiscriminately over an area the size of one or two football fields.

11.08.2006 "Civilians were supposed to be spared and in this conflict they are not," charged UN relief chief Jan Egeland Thursday, saying that Hezbollah and the Israelis "could give us access in a heartbeat and then we could help 120,000 people in southern Lebanon."