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The new Lebanese daily report released on 22 April at 5 p.m. shows a continuing massive crisis despite the ongoing ceasefire. The country still has 642 shelters, 121,126 internally displaced persons in collective shelters, 31,523 displaced families, 2,475 dead and 7,696 injured. A few days after the end of the ten-day truce negotiated under American mediation, Beirut is already calling for its extension, as well as for the cessation of the strikes, demolitions and violations that it imputes to Israel in the south of the country.

The new Lebanese daily report released on 22 April at 5 p.m. shows a continuing massive crisis despite the ongoing ceasefire. The country still has 642 shelters, 121,126 internally displaced persons in collective shelters, 31,523 displaced families, 2,475 dead and 7,696 injured. A few days after the end of the ten-day truce negotiated under American mediation, Beirut is already calling for its extension, as well as for the cessation of the strikes, demolitions and violations that it imputes to Israel in the south of the country.

The planned withdrawal of UNIFIL from 2027 onward led Beirut to reflect on the next stage. Without an officially agreed plan, several signals show that international maintenance in southern Lebanon is now being discussed well beyond the United Nations. Italy stated that it wanted to remain present even after the mission, Spain wanted to continue its engagement in another form, and Joseph Aoun supported any country ready to maintain forces in the South in a framework accepted by Lebanon. This perspective is gaining weight as Israel consolidates a de facto militarized band within Lebanese territory.

The planned withdrawal of UNIFIL from 2027 onward led Beirut to reflect on the next stage. Without an officially agreed plan, several signals show that international maintenance in southern Lebanon is now being discussed well beyond the United Nations. Italy stated that it wanted to remain present even after the mission, Spain wanted to continue its engagement in another form, and Joseph Aoun supported any country ready to maintain forces in the South in a framework accepted by Lebanon. This perspective is gaining weight as Israel consolidates a de facto militarized band within Lebanese territory.

In Tiri, in southern Lebanon, two journalists, Amal Khalil and Zainab Farj, were blocked under Israeli strikes. The government claims that the Red Cross and the Lebanese Army could not reach them freely. The incident revives the issue of media protection on the Lebanese southern front.

Since Paris, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has issued an urgent appeal of EUR 500 million to deal with the humanitarian crisis caused by the Israeli-Lebanese conflict. Behind this amount, we must not see a stimulus plan, but an attempt at minimal stabilisation of a country already weakened by the financial crisis, the fragility of its public services and the extent of internal displacement. Lebanon is seeking less reconstruction than preventing a new phase of social, territorial and political collapse.

In this rostrum, Henri Ramoneda links the Tehran Accords of 1943, the erasure of the Soviet role in the Second World War, the American soft power and recent wars to warn of an ideological drift that would lead Western economies to impoverishment, strategic dependence and a truncated memory.

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On the eve of further negotiations in Washington between Lebanon and Israel, Emmanuel Macron promised Nawaf Salam that France would help Beirut prepare its position, even without sitting directly at the table. This support is not symbolic. At a time when the United States is holding the format, where Israel retains the military advantage and where Lebanon arrives weakened by the war, Paris can still play a useful role: clarifying the Lebanese red lines, reintroducing the issues of sovereignty, Israeli withdrawal and the protection of civilians, and preventing negotiations from being reduced to an exclusively security agenda.

On 22 April, President Joseph Aoun articulated the Lebanese State's doctrine for the present phase in a matter of hours: security firmness within, denial of any violation of civil peace, and defence of an uncompromising line of negotiation over sovereignty in Washington. By calling for raids on stockpiles of weapons, the ban on armed demonstrations and a strengthening of security deployment, while instructing Ambassador Nada Hamadé Muawad to demand an extension of the ceasefire and the cessation of Israeli demolitions, he sought to show that Beirut wanted to resume the initiative without letting itself be trapped in its fractures.

Master Corporal Anicet Girardin, a French soldier from the Finul who was seriously injured during the 18 April attack in southern Lebanon, died on Wednesday 22 April after his repatriation to France. His death brings to two the number of French soldiers who died as a result of this ambush, after Florian Montorio, killed on the spot. Paris continues to accuse Hezbollah, which denies any involvement. In Lebanon, President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and the Speaker of the House Nabih Berri condemned the attack, while the army claims to continue its investigation without announcing at this stage any arrest or public identification of the attackers.

This forum examines how sacrificial logic can transform death into a political project, weaken sovereignty, block the economy and lock Lebanon into permanent war. It opposes this drift a strategy of reconstruction based on life, state, justice, neutrality and common lasting prosperity.

Official Lebanon seeks to prolong a fragile truce before entering into direct negotiations with Israel. Between American pressure, dependence on the Iranian-American case, continued destruction in the South and diplomatic activism in Paris, Riyadh, Doha and Washington, Beirut is trying to avoid an immediate relapse into the war on the ground.

Official Lebanon seeks to prolong a fragile truce before entering into direct negotiations with Israel. Between American pressure, dependence on the Iranian-American case, continued destruction in the South and diplomatic activism in Paris, Riyadh, Doha and Washington, Beirut is trying to avoid an immediate relapse into the war on the ground.