Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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Yeah, yeah.
Hi, Dana.
Thank you for having me.
My name is Elia.
I'm originally from Lebanon.
My background is in both history and journalism, and I often write about the region.
I'm also part Palestinian, and I also write a lot about Israel and Palestine.
And obviously, in the past few years, I've been covering and also worrying a lot about what's been happening.
So what's been happening in Lebanon is directly connected to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, which started, what, about 20 to 23 days ago, something like that.
That was in itself in the context of negotiations between the Americans and the Iranians in Switzerland mediated by Oman.
And just moments later, really that same night, the bombing of Iran started.
In Lebanon, or rather the way Lebanon enters this story is a couple of days after the assassination of Khamenei, the Ayatollah of Iran, Hezbollah launched rockets towards Israel.
And this was used by the Israelis as effectively them saying that we will unleash hell on Lebanon.
And that's often how it's been reported.
What is often missed, even in that context, I mean, is that there was a so-called ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and Hezbollah, obviously, for 13 months before that.
But that so-called ceasefire, the reason I'm saying so-called ceasefire, had already been violated by the Israelis.
And this is figures that come from the UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon over 15,000 times.
Whereas they themselves, in fact, even the BBC today, I saw an article today, acknowledged that Hezbollah had not violated the ceasefire.
Which, you know, I guess tells you also where the mood is at in terms of the coverage.
Since then, like in the past three weeks, the hell, and this term was used by Israeli officials themselves, that has been unleashed on Lebanon has been unprecedented.
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