Soubhi Amhaz

Soubhi Amhaz
Arab World Workers set up a prefabricated house to provide housing for families whose homes have been destroyed in the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, in the village of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh (Western Zawtar) in southern Lebanon, on September 21, 2026. (Photo by Ammar Ammar / AFP)

Prefabricated Homes Arrive in Destroyed South Lebanon Town

Nearly two months after the Lebanese army entered the town of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh in southern Lebanon, temporary housing units have started reaching families…

Soubhi Amhaz (Beirut)
Arab World Members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon (Reuters)

Lebanon Pushes to Retain UN Presence in the South

Lebanon is stepping up a political and diplomatic drive to maintain a UN presence in the south while rallying support for its army, as Beirut and Paris push to…

Soubhi Amhaz (Beirut)
Arab World Smoke rises after Israeli demolition operations targeted the occupied southern Lebanese town of Khiam (AFP)

Lebanon Moves to Protect Land Ownership in Occupied South

Lebanon’s government has approved a draft law banning property sales in Israeli-occupied parts of the south, seeking to prevent wartime displacement and…

Soubhi Amhaz (Beirut)
Arab World Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese village of Mansouri on Sept. 9, 2026 (AFP)

Mansouri Destruction Tests Limits of Southern Lebanon’s ‘Yellow Line’

Israel has stepped up demolitions, explosions and bulldozing in the coastal town of Mansouri, south of Tyre, making it one of the hardest-hit areas in southern…

Soubhi Amhaz (Beirut)
Arab World (FILES) A photograph taken from the southern Lebanese area of Nabatieh shows smoke as it rises from the site of Israeli strikes that targeted the hilltops of the mountainous area of the strategic Ali al-Taher Ridge on August 14, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

Lebanon: Post-Ali al-Taher…Israeli Political Pressure Mounts

Israel’s announcement that it has established what it called “operational control” over Ali al-Taher ridge marks a new phase in southern Lebanon, raising…

Soubhi Amhaz (Beirut)
Arab World Members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon (Reuters)

Three Israeli Vetoes Complicate Progress in Southern Lebanon

Israel has raised three objections that are blocking progress toward a political or military resolution in southern Lebanon: it has rejected a proposed Italian…

Soubhi Amhaz (Beirut)
Features UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) vehicles drive in the Lebanese village of Wazzani near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, July 6, 2023. (Reuters)

From UNIFIL to Verification Committees... Will Int’l Force in Lebanon Have Expanded Powers?

With UNIFIL’s departure now all but certain, the question is no longer whether the UN force will remain in southern Lebanon, but who will replace it, and with…

Soubhi Amhaz (Beirut)
Arab World Workers sort tobacco leaves grown by the Issa family at a farm in the southern Lebanese village of Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ayn on August 21, 2026. (AFP)

State Return to South Lebanon Extends Beyond Security to Services, Recovery

Lebanon’s push to reassert the state’s presence in the south is moving beyond security deployments to a harder test: restoring schools, services, and…

Soubhi Amhaz (Beirut)