News About Lebanon and Israel

The Israeli side is fairly easy to follow. The local sources are well-known. And, of course, American news agencies have little trouble locating their own people in Israel. For local sources try:

The Jerusalem Post
Haaretz
A Carmelite friend recommended this source as one of the more frequently updated from Israel.

KOL Israel is the Israeli radio service. There is a webpage here with links to twice daily on demand news broadcasts. If you are on the east coast of North America, KOL Israel's shortwave broadcasts should be an easy catch. Here on the west coat it's a different proposition as they seem to have no relays. The time/frequency schedule can be found here.

News from Lebanon is less well-known but still available. There are many sources in French and Arabic but these English language news outlets do exist:

The Daily Star
Ya Libnan
Lebanese Lobby

Lebanon is without a radio exterior service. There was one shortwave station, a Catholic outlet called "Radio Charity". This was blown up by persons unknown last year about this time. According to WRTH, the broadcasts continue to be relayed by Vatican Radio but are targeted only at Lebanon itself. The website - linked above - does have some information about the Church in the Lebanon but it is not a major news source.

This site assembles news reports from Lebanon from across the web; sort of a Drudge Report focused on the Lebanon.

The BBC has a site devoted to the Middle East, although not exclusively to the Lebanese situation. There are often audio and video reports linked.

There are bloggers in Lebanon reporting what they see around them:

Vox's Den [a.k.a. Cedars Awakening] This one is a Christian blog.
Beirut Under Siege
Ms Levantine
Lebanese Bloggers was mentioned before. The war has left only one blogger contributing to this group blog.