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Rania Abouzeid

@raniaab.bsky.social
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Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿 www.raniaabouzeid.com

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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As #Lebanon pressures #Hezbollah to disarm, I explore a central paradox: a state can't claim sovereignty while a non-state actor determines qns of war & peace, but sovereignty is hollow if the state can't defend its people & territory. In Issue 4 of Now Voyager mag nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/le...
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Lebanon and Hezbollah: Who Defends the Country?
As Hezbollah faces unprecedented pressure to disarm, Rania Abouzeid reports on the human and political implications of a longstanding question: Can the Lebanese state protect its people?
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Lebanese Druze leader Walid #Jumblatt to Al-Jazeera: There are Lebanese in Washington who are “more Israeli than the Israelis” & some in #Lebanon who don’t consider the south part of the country. Says “we are facing a new map surrounding Israel, but none of us know where its borders are”
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
More than 1,100 Lebanese have been killed during a ‘ceasefire’ that took effect on April 17 #lebanon
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Netanyahu & Israel Katz say they will strike #Beirut’s southern suburbs, following major escalation over weekend in south & forced displacement orders for towns around Sidon, ~40 minutes from Beirut. Yet some media continue to call these acts of war a ‘fragile’ ceasefire #lebanon
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
‘A site it hasn’t held for 26 years’ - as if it is Israel’s to ‘hold.’ Israel's military presence in #Lebanon is an invasion, its holding of territory is an occupation. Call things by their name
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Israeli officials want to resume bombing Beirut. Meanwhile drones are overhead incessantly buzzing all day, almost everyday, and an Israeli fighter jet just broke the sound barrier (sounds like an explosion)
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Lebanon’s Health Ministry releases footage of an Israeli double-tap strike on paramedics today. Ministry says 6 killed including a Syrian child, another half a dozen injured. Death toll since March 2 now stands at 3111, with 9432 wounded #lebanon
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
More than 3000 ppl have been killed in this war. I wrote about 1 strike on Black Wednesday for @newyorker.com. The terror, pain, loss & also love, esp. of Arab men who are too often dehumanized. It’s a story that, these days, unfolds somewhere in #Lebanon every day www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The Missing Bride of Anqoun
A family’s desperate search after the deadliest day of the war between Hezbollah and Israel.
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
There is no ceasefire in #Lebanon or in #Gaza
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#lebanon #beirut
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Always a pleasure to speak with the inimitable Amy Goodman. #lebanon #beirut
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
#Lebanon’s ‘white army’ of medicos, first responders & civil defense - more than 55 of whom have been killed in Israeli strikes in recent weeks - are heroes, working in terrifying, trying conditions with limited means to save & serve #beirut
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Iranian prez vows to “never forsake” #Lebanon on same day #Beirut’s govt said it - & it alone - will negotiate a ceasefire, angering some who say better chance in regional deal given Beirut govt’s inability to get Israel to comply w previous truce. Other Lebanese say Iran is interfering
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This seems to be the most recent update of the death toll in Lebanon following today’s Israeli strikes
Hermel district
9 killed and 6 injured
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Beirut
92 killed and 742 injured
Dahiyeh
61 killed and 200 injured
Baalbak district
18 killed and 28 injured
Saida district
12 killed and 56 injured
Aley district
17 killed and 6 injured
Nabatieh district
28 killed and 59 injured
Tyre district
17 killed and 68 injured
Civil Defense
254 KILLED
IN ATTACKS TODAY
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A quick recap of the day’s events in #Lebanon for @nymag.com #beirut nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Iran War Is Not Over
Scenes from a day of carnage in Beirut.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
‘Israel have encountered ferocious Hezbollah resistance’ – Lebanese journalist says www.channel4.com/news/israel-...
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‘Israel have encountered ferocious Hezbollah resistance’ – Lebanese journalist says
We spoke to the journalist and author Rania Abouzeid from Beirut.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
* TEHRAN CONSIDERING STRIKES AGAINST ISRAEL 'AMID ITS VIOLATION OF TEMPORARY CEASEFIRE IN LEBANON' -- IRAN'S FARS NEWS AGENCY CITING UNNAMED OFFICIAL @reuters.com
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Urgent call for doctors across #Lebanon to go to hospitals to help. Repeated requests for people to donate blood, all types. Red Cross units from north Lebanon mobilized & headed to #Beirut & south to help. Talk of 100s killed & wounded but no casualty toll from Min of Health yet
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
How will #Iran respond to Israel undertaking largest simultaneous attacks on Lebanon of the war - about 100 strikes in 10 minutes - on what is supposedly 1st day of a ceasefire that Pakistan said includes #Lebanon? Tehran had warned that ceasefire = Lebanon too or deal is off ⬇️
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Lebanese Red Cross chief warning of many dead and wounded, asking citizens to clear roads for ambulances. Hospitals are appealing for blood, all types. Strikes hit crowded residential areas in #Beirut. #lebanon
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Dozens of simultaneous Israeli airstrikes across #Beirut and in the south, the Bekaa and elsewhere. In Beirut, first responders racing through streets, sirens screaming. Smoke billowing in residential areas. Traffic jams, chaos. no warning ahead of strikes #lebanon
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Israel makes clear it will continue war in Lebanon despite fact ceasefire includes #Lebanon. It has already struck an ambulance & now issued an evacuation order. Will/can Trump rein in Netanyahu? Will Iran accept Israeli violations? Will Israel’s belligerence threaten the deal?
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Genocidal. Will the world continue to watch and appease a madman, his enablers and donors? Will the US military follow orders to commit monumental war crimes?
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Tonight Israel issued forced displacement orders for >40 towns & villages inc. around Sidon, Nabatieh, elsewhere. More than a million Lebanese are already displaced, shelters are at capacity, people are sleeping on streets, in cars. Now a new wave of displacement begins #lebanon
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"Hormuz has made the end of American hegemony imaginable. It has also shown that, perhaps for the first time, the Global South possesses the political will and ideas needed to build a new international order.” @mona-ali.bsky.social on Suez, Hormuz, the petrodollar, & what might come next
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The world normalized the abnormal with no consequences & is now seeing the blowback. Iranians say no deal unless it is comprehensive b/c "they don't want to be caught in a #Gaza or #Lebanon situation where there is a ceasefire on paper but US & Israel can attack again whenever they want” #iran
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Three UNIFIL peacekeepers killed in south #Lebanon in the last 24 hours, two today and one yesterday
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Monday morning and Trump is threatening to commit war crimes by blowing up Iran's power plants, oil wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalination plants).
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
One Lebanese soldier killed, others wounded in what Lebanese army says was an Israeli attack on a checkpoint near Tyre #lebanon #beirut
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 29/03/2026
Israeli military spokesman advertises operation in south Lebanon launched from occupied Syrian Jabal al-Sheikh:
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
‪What happens when conflict ends & a country begins picking up the pieces? My glimpse into how Syrians aren't just rebuilding stone but trying to remake relationships that allowed buildings to function as shared space, for excellent new @equatormag.bsky.social #syria www.equator.org/articles/fro...
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From the Ruins • EQUATOR
In a country redefining its national symbols, holidays, historic heroes and school curriculum, what it even means to be Syrian is an open question
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Israel wants to occupy at least 10% of #Lebanon, a zone Katz previously claimed would be demilitarized & depopulated. The people of the south will not forsake their land. Last time Israel occupied the sth, Hezbollah was born
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
#Iran’s speaker of Parliament denies talks with US
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hezbollah rockets reportedly traveling ‘more than 200 kilometers’ over Israel #lebanon
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Lebanon’s Ministry of Health says 56 people killed TODAY and 211 wounded #beirut #lebanon
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Barrack refutes Reuters report
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
A dangerous reckless suggestion, drawing another country into regionwide war, esp given Syria’s history in Lebanon, Hezb intervention in Syria & Beirut's hosting Syrian refugees. Also reveals US thinks Israel alone can’t take on Hezbollah if wants Syria to invade too. #lebanon
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Shoutout to #Lebanon’s broadcast journalists who are on-camera around the clock, day after day, and who make sure to acknowledge their camerapeople by name in just about every broadcast. They are working in dangerous, difficult conditions
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Pope Leo tells journalists: “It is up to you to show the sufferings that war always brings to the people; to show the face of war and to relate it through the eyes of the victims, so as not to transform it into a videogame.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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To Members of the Editorial Staff of the TG2 of the Italian broadcasting corporation, RAI, on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of its Foundation, with their Families (16 March 2026)
ADDRESS OF POPE LEO XIV TO MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE TG2 OF THE ITALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RAI, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDATION, WITH THEIR FAMILIES  Cleme...
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Latest casualty figures from #Lebanon’s Health Ministry. The dead include 111 children #Beirut
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Israel’s defense minister Katz announces ground invasion of sth #Lebanon. Says residents won’t return to area south of Litani River suggesting intent to hold or otherwise control area. Last time Israel invaded & occupied south of the river in 1982, Hezbollah was born in response. #Beirut
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Heavy rain in Lebanon today. There are still thousands sleeping outside, in tents or out in the open.
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Israeli warplane dropped leaflets w QR codes over #Beirut. Lebanese army urged ppl not to scan codes, citing hacking & other risks inc. legal. Under Lebanese law, dealing w Israelis is an act of treason. Leaflets asked Lebanese to share info abt Hezbollah, threatened #Lebanon could become like Gaza
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Israel targets Lebanese state infrastructure, destroying a bridge to cut off parts of sth #Lebanon. Israel Katz, Israel’s defense min, says “this is only the beginning” & Lebanon will lose territory & infrastructure until Hezbollah disarmed. Netanyahu asks for more civilian targets
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Israel has issued a forced displacement order for residents south of the Zahrani River, driving even more people out of an expanding area of southern #Lebanon. More than 800,000 Lebanese have already been forced to flee their homes and villages.
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Overnight, at least 8 displaced Lebanese forced from their homes were killed in an Israeli strike as they slept on a beachfront boulevard in Beirut #lebanon
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
A clear escalation tonight from both sides. Israel unleashed an extensive wave of airstrikes on #Lebanon while Hezbollah announced a new operation, “Eaten Straw” referencing a Quranic verse, that opened with a barrage of ~100 rockets into northern #Israel
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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
TOP TIP: get round the problem of no plan surviving contact with the enemy by having no plan.
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Rania Abouzeid @raniaab.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Y'day #Lebanon's Prez Aoun said Hezbollah's opening salvo (he didn't name group) was 'a trap’ for Leb state & army to force state to 1. engage Israel & turn “Lebanon into another Gaza” = state collapse, or 2. Hezb w say state unable to protect its ppl, which also = state collapse
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