في 9 يناير/كانون الثاني 2025، انتخب البرلمان اللبناني رئيسًا جديدًا، هو جوزاف عون، بعد شغور رئاسي دام أكثر من عامَيْن. وفي 13 يناير/كانون الثاني 2025، كلّف الرئيس عون الرئيس السابق لمحكمة العدل الدولية وسفير لبنان السابق لدى الأمم المتحدة، نواف سلام، بتأليف وترؤس حكومة جديدة.
On 9 January 2025, Lebanon’s Parliament elected a new president, Joseph Aoun, after a more than two-year presidential vacancy. On 13 January 2025, President Aoun designated the former president of the International Court of Justice and Lebanon’s former ambassador to the United Nations, Nawaf Salam, to form and lead a new cabinet of ministers.
The Palestinian community of Shi’b Al-Butum in Masafer Yatta is at imminent risk of forcible transfer due to increasing state-backed settler attacks, as well as home demolitions, restrictions on access to land and illegal settlement expansion by the Israeli authorities, Amnesty International said today.
Four separate air strikes by Israeli forces, which killed at least 49 civilians and decimated entire families in Lebanon, must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said today.
At the conclusion of the international conference on Lebanon held today in Paris, a coalition of humanitarian, solidarity and human rights non-governmental organizations has launched an urgent call to Emmanuel Macron and the heads of states and ministers attending the conference to take immediate and concrete actions to better protect civilian populations in Lebanon.
The Israeli military’s targeting of branches of Qard al-Hassan, a non-profit financial association affiliated with Hezbollah, with over 30 branches across Lebanon, likely violates international humanitarian law and must be investigated as a war crime, Amnesty International said today.
Evacuation warnings issued by the Israeli military to residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut and south Lebanon were inadequate, and in some cases also misleading, said Amnesty International today.
