A rocket has been fired from southern Lebanon towards Israel, reportedly exploding near the northern Israeli town of Metula according to Lebanese media and security sources.
As Hezbollah fighters join the Syrian conflict to support the Assad regime and suppress the uprising, is the political party-militia losing its legitimacy and drawing Lebanon towards an Sunni-Shia confrontation?
This is a letter from Hala Gharib to her father Hanna and is related to a previously published article on The Descrier entitled Lebanon: Labour Demands Much More Than Better Salaries.
In the midst of political and security instability and growing concerns with the spillovers of the Syrian crisis, Lebanon has been witnessing one of its most important labour demonstrations in years.
Pressure is growing on the EU to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation after a probe concluded that the Shiite group was behind the 2012 bus bomb attack in Bulgaria against Israeli tourists. But with the organisation so entrenched in Lebanese society, what effect would this have on the country?