Rania Abouzeid
@raniaab.bsky.social
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
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
www.raniaabouzeid.com
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...
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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August 25, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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...
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”
June 11, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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
June 1, 2026 at 7:37 AM
‘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
US media outlets are willing to butcher the English language — along with common sense and human decency — to avoid stating a basic fact: Israel is expanding its occupation of southern Lebanon
May 31, 2026 at 4:10 PM
‘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
Reposted by Rania Abouzeid
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)
Israeli ministers call for return to ‘high-intensity’ war on Hizbollah ft.trib.al/Ji6oqJs
Israeli ministers call for return to ‘high-intensity’ war on Hizbollah
Far-right officials fear a US-Iran peace deal could rein in Israel’s campaign in Lebanon
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May 25, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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)
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
May 22, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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
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-...
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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May 21, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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-...
May 10, 2026 at 5:14 PM
"It was 10 minutes of terror, a day that the Lebanese are calling Black Wednesday."
“10 Minutes of Terror”: Lebanon Death Toll Tops 300 From Israel's “Black Wednesday” Attack
As the United States and Iran prepare to hold talks in Pakistan aimed at ending the war, Israel is continuing to bomb Lebanon, where the death toll from Wednesday's massive wave of attacks has topped 300.
“It was 10 minutes of terror, a day that the Leb...
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April 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
#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
April 9, 2026 at 2:34 PM
#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
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
April 9, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Rania Abouzeid
This seems to be the most recent update of the death toll in Lebanon following today’s Israeli strikes
April 8, 2026 at 7:47 PM
This seems to be the most recent update of the death toll in Lebanon following today’s Israeli strikes
Reposted by Rania Abouzeid
‘Israel have encountered ferocious Hezbollah resistance’ – Lebanese journalist says
www.channel4.com/news/israel-...
www.channel4.com/news/israel-...
‘Israel have encountered ferocious Hezbollah resistance’ – Lebanese journalist says
We spoke to the journalist and author Rania Abouzeid from Beirut.
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April 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
‘Israel have encountered ferocious Hezbollah resistance’ – Lebanese journalist says
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Reposted by Rania Abouzeid
* TEHRAN CONSIDERING STRIKES AGAINST ISRAEL 'AMID ITS VIOLATION OF TEMPORARY CEASEFIRE IN LEBANON' -- IRAN'S FARS NEWS AGENCY CITING UNNAMED OFFICIAL
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April 8, 2026 at 1:40 PM
* 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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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
April 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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 ⬇️
Tehran had warned that ceasefire = Lebanon too or deal is off ⬇️
April 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Reposted by Rania Abouzeid
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
April 8, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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
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?
April 8, 2026 at 6:28 AM
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?
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?
April 7, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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?
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
April 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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