• Today Tyre is the fourth largest city in Lebanon after Beirut, Tripoli, and Sidon. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ever since Jesus wandered through the region of Tyre and Sidon, there have been Christians in Lebanon. (ewtn.com)
  • Najdeh's embroidery project, AL Badia, includes two embroidery workshops in Ein El Helweh (Sidon, South) and Rashidiyeh (Tyre, South) camps. (peaceinsight.org)
  • Mieh Mieh in Sidon and Borj El Shemali & Buss in Tyre). (peaceinsight.org)
  • The evangelists and apostles were altogether absorbed in their meditations regarding the discourses of the Master on religion to which they had listened en route to Sidon. (urantia.org)
  • Today the land falls largely within the country known as Lebanon, though the Bible most commonly refers to it by the names of its chief towns, Tyre and Sidon ( Ezra 3:7). (bibleportal.com)
  • A tract of country, of which Tyre and Sidon were the principal cities, to the north of Palestine, along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, bounded by that sea on the west, and by the mountain range of Lebanon on the east. (bibleportal.com)
  • What may be termed Phoenicia proper was a narrow undulating plain, extending from the pass of Ras El-Beyad or Abyad , the Promontorium Album of the ancients, about six miles south of Tyre, to the Nahr El-Auly , the ancient Bostrenus, two miles north of Sidon. (bibleportal.com)
  • but near Sidon, the mountains retreat to a distance of two miles, and near Tyre, to a distance of five miles. (bibleportal.com)
  • The havens of Tyre and Sidon afforded water of sufficient depth for all the requirements of ancient navigation, and the neighboring range of the Lebanon, in its extensive forests, furnished what then seemed a nearly inexhaustible supply of timber for ship-building. (bibleportal.com)
  • Beirut, Sidon and Tyre were blockaded. (1somi.com)
  • Reporter Avraham Rabinovich wrote that the effects of shelling on Tyre and Sidon were "numbing," while Robert Fisk reported that air attacks on Sidon "must have been among the most ferocious ever delivered on a Lebanese city … it looks as if a tornado has torn through the residential buildings. (cdlib.org)
  • UN-Habitat estimates that the main cities of Beirut, Tripoli, Saida, and Tyre host 65 per cent of the Lebanese population, 90 per cent of Palestine refugees and near 30 per cent of displaced Syrians. (developmentaid.org)
  • Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets from Beirut, to the northern city of Tripoli, Tyre in the south and the Bekaa Valley to the east. (codastory.com)
  • As of Friday last week (18/10), people were protesting in more than 60 places around the country, from Tripoli in the North to Tyre in the south, Baalbek in the East, and Saida in the west. (blogalstudies.com)
  • With a population of around 250,000, Tripoli - a heartland of the Sunni Muslim community - is Lebanon's second-largest city and port, and capital of the North Lebanon Governorate (Muhafazat). (bradtguides.com)
  • Despite its size, it has been estimated that only some 2% of visitors to the country actually visit Tripoli and those who do mostly arrive on organised coach tours as day-trippers rather than on an extended tour of the city and its environs. (bradtguides.com)
  • Tyre juts out from the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and is located about 80 km (50 mi) south of Beirut. (wikipedia.org)
  • Beirut is the capital of Lebanon and the largest city. (lebweb.com)
  • Two years after launching an ambitious political initiative intended to put Lebanon back on track in the wake of the Beirut port tragedy of August 4, 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron is still determined to help the land of cedars, reports the Lebanese French-language daily, L'Orient Le Jour ( Macron à « L'OLJ » : Je ne laisserai pas le Liban disparaître… ). (jewishpress.com)
  • The whole country has been under a blockade since Beirut airport was shut down and ships were told not to dock in Lebanon. (swissinfo.ch)
  • South of Beirut, across the sandy banks of the Litani River, the IAF hammered Hizbullah positions and dual-use infrastructure, including the two main bridges that link south and north Lebanon. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • With bombs falling on Beirut and its citizens fleeing northwards, with Hizbullah fighters massing on the Israeli border, and with Israeli artillery shells pounding southern Lebanon, pressure began to mount on Hizbullah for provoking the aerial onslaught, just as Israel had hoped. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • In early February 2014, a group of LHM-Lebanon volunteers led by Yamout traveled about 50 miles south of Beirut to a refugee center in the coastal city of Tyre. (salamchristianfellowship.org)
  • Within days the spill had spread to south Lebanon, where clumps of tar contaminated beaches stretching from the border town of Naqoura to the southern city of Tyre, all the way to the capital Beirut. (yorku.ca)
  • For 16 days, hundreds of air and ground attacks terrorized South Lebanon, Beirut, its surrounding areas and the Bekaa Valley. (1somi.com)
  • Israeli planes violated the Lebanese airspace over Beirut, South Lebanon and Mount Lebanon. (who.int)
  • BEIRUT - Ahmed Abdul-Hadi, the representative of Hamas in Lebanon, insisted Monday that the decision to launch the surprise Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel was made by Hamas leadership and not directed by Iran or any other outside party, but he said that in event of a ground invasion of Gaza, allied groups will intervene. (kget.com)
  • He estimates that more than 80 percent of Lebanon's startups are based in Beirut and Mount Lebanon, and he and several other leaders in the ecosystem would like to see not only more economic but also geographic diversity. (wamda.com)
  • Vast reserves of natural gas are estimated to lie beneath Lebanese waters, much of it off Tyre's coast, but exploitation has been delayed by border disputes with Israel. (wikipedia.org)
  • The estimated population of Lebanon is around 4 millions, with over 11 million Lebanese living abroad. (lebweb.com)
  • Lebanon has witnessed big prosperity after the Lebanese War (1975-1990) driven by tourism, art, media, fashion and banking sectors. (lebweb.com)
  • A report from the Lebanese Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) said that the IDF bombing campaign had destroyed more than 900 small and medium enterprises with damage to Lebanon's civilian infrastructure estimated at close to $2.5 billion. (jewishpress.com)
  • But as the weeks pass and the missiles fly, the risk that either side could miscalculate or overreach is growing, said Andrea Tenenti, spokesman for the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, a peacekeeping force that monitors activity on the Lebanese side of the border. (spokesman.com)
  • Surveying the past 30 years in Lebanon, there are a few key events that help to explain the Lebanese protests. (blogalstudies.com)
  • As the Lebanese civil war came to an end in 1989, the Taif peace agreement divided the state's power between the diverse sectarian groups that make up Lebanon. (blogalstudies.com)
  • Volunteer centres were set up to distribute food and supplies to Lebanese and Palestinian (from the Palestinian camps in Lebanon) fire-fighting volunteers, mostly organised through WhatsApp groups. (blogalstudies.com)
  • A Lebanese fireman douses fire at a factory after it was hit by an Israeli air strike in Bourj Shimali near Tyre. (knau.org)
  • Despite these heavy subsidies, which aim to lower the price of electricity for the Lebanese population as a whole, the combined average cost of electricity for consumers is estimated to be approximately 18.8 cents, USD, per kW (kilowatt) - compared to 22 cents per kW in France, and 11.1 cents per kW in Jordan, due to the fact that electricity needs are largely being met by private diesel generators. (executive-magazine.com)
  • The situation has been aggravated due to the devaluation of the Lebanese Pound (LBP) and the lack of dollars for fuel imports, which may threaten to plunge Lebanon into darkness. (executive-magazine.com)
  • The number of Syrian refugees in lebanon is now estimated at two million, while the Lebanese population is only four. (salamchristianfellowship.org)
  • Nahr el Bared camp in Nothern Lebanon witnessed fierce battles in mid 2007 between fundamentalist armed militias and the Lebanese Army. (peaceinsight.org)
  • Yet, as argued earlier, the calculus of confronting external threats to the PLO's Lebanese sanctuary was intimately tied to the security of its status in Lebanon. (mcgill.ca)
  • For while the vast bulk of the PLO's burgeoning physical infrastructure in Lebanon continued to emerge relatively unscathed from most Israeli attacks, the same could not be said of either the PLO's internal alliances or its position in Lebanese public opinion. (mcgill.ca)
  • Other decrees and decisions gave the Authority other functions, namely: - Ensure water monitoring in all Lebanese rivers 10 km north of Tyre, the river is crossed by the ancient Leontes Bridge. (toutelachirurgieesthetique.fr)
  • It was able to land 100 tons of food in Tyre, Lebanon's fourth largest city, on Wednesday. (swissinfo.ch)
  • A top U.N. peacekeeping official on Friday said he feared the war in southern Lebanon would continue until late August and voiced fears Israel would flatten Lebanon's southern villages and destroy Tyre "neighborhood by neighborhood" if Hezbollah rockets keep landing in the Jewish state. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • The river rises in the fertile Beqaa Valley, west of Baalbek, and empties into the Mediterranean Sea north of Tyre. (toutelachirurgieesthetique.fr)
  • IDF bombing damaged irrigation canals, open water channels, and underground water diversion pipes which run Litani River water to more than 10,000 acres of farmland, villages in southern Lebanon, and the Bekaa Valley. (jewishpress.com)
  • There were approximately 200,000 inhabitants in the Tyre urban area in 2016, including many refugees, as the city hosts three of the twelve Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon: Burj El Shimali, El Buss, and Rashidieh. (wikipedia.org)
  • Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said earlier that "Israel takes the concerns raised by the U.S. extremely seriously" and had been as "forthcoming and transparent as possible," adding that "Israel is itself conducting an ongoing internal investigation as to the use of munitions during the Lebanon conflict. (time.com)
  • Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev says that Israel "fully supports the U.N. efforts to clear up munitions in Lebanon. (time.com)
  • Distribution of first-aid kits and medication is underway, but is proceeding slowly because of security concerns and heavy fighting in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border. (swissinfo.ch)
  • Since the beginning of fighting between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militia on July 13, Switzerland has given the ICRC SFr5.2 million for relief work in Lebanon. (swissinfo.ch)
  • The continued fever pitch of PLO rhetoric in the aftermath of Lebanon raised further questions: were PLO leaders not aware of the Israeli bulldozers at work on the West Bank, and the short time left before that region became irreversibly part of Israel? (danielpipes.org)
  • KIRYAT SHMONA, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 10: Israeli soldiers stand ready in their armoured personnel carrier (APC) in the Golan Heights near the Israeli border with Lebanon on November 10, 2023 near Kiryat Shmona, Israel. (spokesman.com)
  • At U.N. peacekeeping headquarters in Naqoura, barely a stone's throw from Israel, political affairs officer Ryszard Morczynski said Tyre would become a target of intense Israeli attacks because Hezbollah was firing rockets from the city's suburbs into Israel's northern port of Haifa. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • On the evening of 12 July 2006, IAF fighters, in the largest military operation against Lebanon since 1982, delivered an Israeli version of "shock and awe" to Lebanon. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • For a fifth straight day, the Israeli military and Hezbollah guerrillas operating in south Lebanon traded fierce missile attacks, leaving dead and wounded civilians on both sides of the border. (knau.org)
  • The Israeli Air Force (IAF) also launched attacks at the port of Tyre in southern Lebanon. (knau.org)
  • The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronot is reporting that small teams of Israeli special forces units are operating in southern Lebanon. (knau.org)
  • The Israeli government has warned residents of Tel Aviv -- 80 miles from the Lebanon border -- to prepare for the possibility of missile strikes. (knau.org)
  • Roads leading out of Lebanon were struck by Israeli warplanes leaving them out of commission, and Beirut's Rafik Hariri Airport is inoperable after repeated Israeli missile strikes damaged the runways. (knau.org)
  • Their strategic purpose was to goad Arafat's organization, which had taken refuge in Lebanon, into responding by attacking Israeli targets. (sott.net)
  • As a result, the Israeli Defense Minister explained, Katyusha rockets had stopped raining down on Israeli villages "from terrorist sanctuaries in Lebanon. (sott.net)
  • According to some reports, Israeli leaders hoped-and perhaps even engaged in concrete planning-to engineer the expulsion of Palestinians from Lebanon. (cdlib.org)
  • [ 59 ] Two days later, Israeli armored columns began advancing through southern Lebanon, including 90,000 troops, 2,600 armored vehicles, and hundreds of warplanes and artillery. (cdlib.org)
  • Every day for the past six weeks, Israel has attacked Lebanon and Hezbollah has attacked Israel, a pattern that began as a tit for tat and has now blurred into a steady exchange of fire. (spokesman.com)
  • A red rash covers much of the map, concentrated on the areas south of Tyre, and around the towns of Tibnine and Nabatieh. (time.com)
  • The influx of refugees has augmented Lebanon population density from 400 to 520 person/km2. (developmentaid.org)
  • Ongoing fighting in Lebanon is hindering the distribution of emergency supplies warn Swiss experts, while providing shelter for refugees is proving complicated. (swissinfo.ch)
  • The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has issued an update on the Syrian Refugees which shows that Lebanon has the largest number of Syrian refugees. (yalibnan.com)
  • In Lebanon, UNHCR registers an average of 1,500 refugees daily through its four registration centres across the country, and is increasing capacity to respond to growing needs. (yalibnan.com)
  • Yamout shares the love of Christ with Syrian refugees and others in South Lebanon, in the Middle East. (salamchristianfellowship.org)
  • In addition to giving Syrian refugees in Lebanon the Bread of Life, Brother Yamout is helping with some of their health issues with the support of a Korean medical team. (salamchristianfellowship.org)
  • Association Najdeh works to support Palestinian and other refugees in Lebanon. (peaceinsight.org)
  • A month after Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks that left an estimated 1,400 dead and over 240 held hostage, Israel has maintained a relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip and launched a ground invasion to vanquish the militant group that governs the Palestinian territory. (spokesman.com)
  • Incredibly, though it's all laid bare in the best-seller, no one is talking about key details from it, details that show Israel invented the 'War on Terror' and carried out dozens of high-casualty bomb attacks in Lebanon in the early 1980s that were blamed on the PLO, Yassir Arafat's Palestinian resistance movement. (sott.net)
  • No new attacks on health care facilities have been recorded in Southern Lebanon during this reporting period. (who.int)
  • The part of the original island not covered by the modern city of Tyre is mostly of an archaeological site showcasing remains of the city from ancient times. (wikipedia.org)
  • During this time also, he personally supervised archaeological digs of ancient Tyre. (phoenicia.org)
  • Agricultural activity, particularly in south Lebanon, was abandoned due to the fighting and bombing of the irrigation system. (jewishpress.com)
  • A member of an ordnance disposal team marks a BLU-63 bomblet on a hill outside the village of Hallousiyeh, south lebanon. (time.com)
  • The "toy" was a cluster bomblet, just one of the estimated 1 million unexploded sub-munitions scattered across the valleys and hills of south Lebanon during last summer's war between Israel and Hizballah. (time.com)
  • Manufacturers claim a dud rate of around 5 percent, but the U.N. estimates that more than 30 percent of cluster bomblets fired into south Lebanon failed to detonate. (time.com)
  • A decorated former British soldier who oversees global operations for the U.N. Mine Action Service and has cleared munitions in Kosovo and Sudan, Clark says the cluster bomb situation in south Lebanon "is the worst I've ever seen," adding, "It's unprecedented and unbelievable. (time.com)
  • A map of cluster bomb strike sites in south Lebanon pinned to the wall of his office illustrates the severity of the problem. (time.com)
  • Even knowing the record of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) toward Israel had not prepared me to think that it terrorized Palestinians, too - yet such, it turned out, had been the case in South Lebanon from 1975 to 1982. (danielpipes.org)
  • MP Enaya Ezzeddine of the Development and Liberation bloc has said that the amount of tar that has polluted the sand beaches of south Lebanon in recent days has been estimated to be at around two tons. (yorku.ca)
  • Instead, the PLO argued that the invasion was a reflection of 'Zionist designs on south Lebanon,' whereby 'the Zionist leadership is revealing Israel's actual intention to occupy the southern and southeastern section of Lebanon, the underlying motive being access to and control over the waters of the Litani River. (mcgill.ca)
  • Galilee of the Gentiles" is supposed to be Upper Galilee, either because it bordered on Tyre and Zidon, or because Phenicians, Syrians, Arabs, and other heathen were numerous among it inhabitants. (biblehub.com)
  • Dr. Merrill argues for the general correctness of Josephus' estimates, who says there were 204 cities and villages in Galilee, the smallest of which numbered 15,000 inhabitants. (biblehub.com)
  • In October 2019, as the federal government introduced new taxes, Lebanon noticed the start of the locally-called October Revolution, a sequence of protests towards the political institution that led the nation into an financial deadlock. (byowtechnology.com)
  • According to him, Lebanon "would not survive a new conflict on the southern border, which would be much more deadly, much more destructive than that of 2006. (jewishpress.com)
  • The organisation estimates that almost one million people - around a quarter of the population - have been displaced by this conflict. (swissinfo.ch)
  • TYRE, Lebanon - The secondary conflict that erupted along the Lebanon-Israel border in tandem with the Gaza war has settled into something of a routine. (spokesman.com)
  • In 1985 as prime minister, he criminalized contact with PLO representatives - spurning peace and reconciliation, fostering endless conflict and persecution of an entire population, including its own Arab citizens, estimated at about 1.7 million people today. (1somi.com)
  • The ancient city of Tyre is located along the coast of Phoenicia in modern Lebanon. (wikipedia.org)
  • To the north of Palestine, along the narrow coastal strip between the Mediterranean Sea and the Lebanon Range, was the land known in Bible times as Phoenicia. (bibleportal.com)
  • When air raids were suspended for 48 hours, a lot of people took the opportunity to throw a few things in their cars and leave as quickly as possible," said Roland Huguenin, the ICRC spokesman in Tyre. (swissinfo.ch)
  • I doubt that I was alone in being perplexed by the news from Lebanon during the summer of 1982. (danielpipes.org)
  • They eventually did, thus providing Israel with 'justification' for invading Lebanon in 1982. (sott.net)
  • On August 29, 1982, Ariel Sharon took to the opinion pages of the New York Times to argue that Israel's "most immediate achievement" following its invasion of Lebanon had been the "crushing defeat" of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). (sott.net)
  • Týros) is a city in Lebanon, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, though in medieval times for some centuries by just a tiny population. (wikipedia.org)
  • The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1984. (wikipedia.org)
  • The present city of Tyre covers a large part of the original island and has expanded onto and covers most of the causeway built by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Tyre for example, there are almost no shops open and it's a city that is literally under siege," Huguenin told swissinfo. (swissinfo.ch)
  • In ancient Tyre, a quaint port city of fishermen, cobbled streets and markets, fears are sky-high that violence will soon spread to the rest of Lebanon. (spokesman.com)
  • As small as Lebanon is, there are no opportunities outside the city," said Mohamad Najem, cofounder of Social Media Exchange, a training and advocacy organization for local communities, a job that takes him all over Lebanon. (wamda.com)
  • This name, which in the Roman age was applied to a large province, seems to have been originally confined to a little "circuit" of country round Kedesh-Naphtali, in which were situated the twenty towns given by Solomon to Hiram king of Tyre as payment for his work in conveying timber from Lebanon to Jerusalem. (biblehub.com)
  • Lebanon has been facing since July 2015 a severe solid waste crisis that led to the creation of 1700 informal dumping sites, and to the compilation of garbage in the streets of the cities. (developmentaid.org)
  • Ignited by a government decision to introduce a "WhatsApp tax," people all over Lebanon recently took to the streets to protest elite rule under the guise of democracy. (blogalstudies.com)
  • Najdeh operates 34 centres in and around nine official Palestinian refugee camps and three gatherings in Lebanon. (peaceinsight.org)
  • Among other organizations, Najdeh is leading a campaign to support UNRWA facing its biggest financial crisis in its history, and highlight its importance for the Palestinian community in Lebanon. (peaceinsight.org)
  • Two points of the parliamentary statement explicitly addressed the Palestinian presence in Lebanon. (mcgill.ca)
  • Its goal, broadly speaking, was to destroy the PLO's organizational infrastructure in Lebanon. (cdlib.org)
  • Powerful winds and unusually high waves pummeled Israel's entire Mediterranean coastline on February 17, with tons of tar staining 160 kilometers of beach from its borders with the Gaza Strip to Lebanon. (yorku.ca)
  • Had it been completed, the weight of this obelisk is estimated to be at 1200 tons (the next largest obelisk weighs 300 tons). (bibleplaces.com)
  • On Saturday morning, mask-clad volunteers and members of the civil defense sifted blobs of tar out of sand on the beach of the Tyre Coast Nature Reserve, an AFP journalist said. (yorku.ca)
  • An estimated 95 percent of all buildings and infrastructure were either destroyed or damaged beyond repair, forcing residents to flee to nearby Beddawi camp. (peaceinsight.org)
  • It originally consisted of two distinct urban centres: Tyre itself, which was on an island just 500 to 700 m offshore, and the associated settlement of Ushu on the adjacent mainland, later called Palaetyrus, meaning "Old Tyre" in Ancient Greek. (wikipedia.org)
  • The story of the National Museum started in 1919 with a small group of ancient artifacts, which had been collected by Raymond Weill, a French officer stationed in Lebanon. (phoenicia.org)
  • Tyre has a Hot-summer mediterranean climate (classified as Csa under the Köppen climate classification), characterized by six months of drought from May to October. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lebanon is located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and is considered the gateway to the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Africa. (lebweb.com)
  • The strategic position of Lebanon, its mild climate and natural beauty, consisting of snow-capped mountains, valleys and the Mediterranean Sea, make it a natural tourist attraction. (lebanonembassyus.org)
  • Just days before the attack, the people of Lebanon basked in the Mediterranean sun, watching World Cup Soccer and anticipating the height of tourist season. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Lebanon is the only country in the Arab world that offers skiing and related winter sports activities. (lebanonembassyus.org)
  • The last war, in 2006, killed over 1,200 people in Lebanon and 165 in Israel and left swaths of this beleaguered country in ruins. (spokesman.com)
  • Amongst cabinet members, there are differences of opinion about the policy of deploying IDF troops in southern Lebanon, and perhaps even deeper into the country. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • Last week, the U.S. State Department announced that a preliminary investigation had concluded that Israel may have breached agreements with Washington on the use of U.S.-supplied cluster munitions during the Lebanon war. (time.com)
  • I have no doubt that Israel will flatten Tyre if civilian casualties continue in Haifa. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • While Nasrallah condemned Israel and sought to rally Lebanon behind Hizbullah, his fighters fulfilled his pledge to expand the war. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Cities across Lebanon shook and rattled while bombs and rockets slammed into their targets, lighting the night sky with explosions, tracer fire, and the deep fluorescent glow of flares. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • It's very dangerous," said Rita al-Darwish, who escaped her border village under fire six weeks ago and is among over 14,000 displaced people who have taken refuge in Tyre. (spokesman.com)
  • He estimated that 80 percent of the roughly half-million people who live in southern Lebanon have already fled the embattled area. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • UNHCR estimates that 21,000 people in need of protection have crossed into Jordan since 1 January, with new arrivals reporting increasing desperation for safety. (yalibnan.com)
  • But how did the people of Lebanon arrive at this point and why now? (blogalstudies.com)
  • Other reports estimate that numbers are even higher as people come and go in 24-hour a day demonstrations. (blogalstudies.com)
  • What we're seeing in all these ecosystems are people, especially in developing countries, who are highly educated and all look the same, whether you go to Berlin, New York or Lebanon. (wamda.com)
  • What I'm seeing when I go to Lebanon is a core of ecosystem people in international circles. (wamda.com)
  • This religious freedom distinguishes Lebanon from all other Arab countries. (ewtn.com)
  • Bishop Joseph Flavien Melki of the Syrian Catholic Church was interviewed on the situation in Lebanon by "Kirche in Not" during a recent visit to Munich.Bishop Melki, how free are Christians in Lebanon? (ewtn.com)
  • In the Tyre region, which has come under heavy attack, the population has fallen dramatically, dropping to 100,000 according to the ICRC. (swissinfo.ch)
  • With Palestinians unable by law to work in Lebanon in many professions in the formal labor sector, some of Najdeh's programmes focus on vocational training, helping beneficiaries to acquire skills in specific fields such as graphic design, installation and maintenance of internet networks. (peaceinsight.org)
  • Following the successful implementation of a pilot project in north Lebanon for 200 families, we intend expanding cash assistance to 18,000 beneficiaries by June. (yalibnan.com)
  • The material damage to the private sector was estimated at $200 million with an anticipated increase in that figure due to canceled contracts. (jewishpress.com)
  • Exceeding 140 km in length, the Litani River is the longest river in Lebanon and provides an average annual flow estimated at 920 million cubic meters. (toutelachirurgieesthetique.fr)
  • The imposition of what quickly became known as the "WhatsApp tax" was the final straw for a nation suffering from an estimated 25% unemployment rate, a looming financial crisis and a sectarian political system that fails to provide citizens with the most basic services. (codastory.com)
  • Lebanon could be a model for the other countries of the region.Does the constitution have an effect on day-to-day life? (ewtn.com)
  • In Lebanon, or even the entire region, it might seem premature to think about bridging the socioeconomic divide before there are major success stories, and where getting off the ground can still be challenging for more privileged entrepreneurs. (wamda.com)
  • In terms of geomorphology and seismicity, Tyre is close to the Roum Fault and the Yammouneh Fault. (wikipedia.org)
  • The total cost of electricity is estimated at 21cents/kW per hour for every kW sold, while the tariff remains unchanged at EDL since 1994 at 9.5 cents/kW. (executive-magazine.com)
  • It is the capital of the Tyre District in the South Governorate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Early names of Tyre include Akkadian Ṣurru, Phoenician Ṣūr (𐤑𐤓‎), and Hebrew Ṣōr (צוֹר). (wikipedia.org)
  • 1) The shipping time mentioned above refers to the estimated time of business days that the shipment will take after an order has been shipped. (banggood.com)
  • The Christians of Lebanon are a model of ecumenical cooperation without parallel in the world. (ewtn.com)
  • One could name even more serious examples of the creeping Islamization of Lebanon.With these developments, how do Christians see their future in Lebanon? (ewtn.com)
  • Throughout history from prehistoric times onwards, all settlements in the Tyre area profited from the abundance of fresh water supplies, especially from the nearby springs of Rashidieh and Ras Al Ain in the South. (wikipedia.org)
  • Now it is from the morning till the night," she told the Washington Post while visiting Tyre to buy supplies. (spokesman.com)
  • Practices which came into being after independence betrayed this tendency: one-party elections in Syria, ballots for lesser officials but not for the head of government in Egypt, political parties representing religious groups in Lebanon, democracy alternating with military rule in Turkey, and manipulated elections in revolutionary Iran. (danielpipes.org)
  • Apart from its privileged geographical and natural situation, Lebanon benefits from qualified and experienced human resources in the tourism industry. (lebanonembassyus.org)
  • According to the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the situation in Lebanon is nothing less than a humanitarian emergency. (swissinfo.ch)