Gert Van Langendonck

🇱🇧 (EN/FR/NL) I came to Beirut today to show our full support to the Lebanese authorities and to express our deep solidarity with the families affected by the violent conflict opposing Israel to Hezbollah. Just before I was commending President Aoun for offering to open official negotiations with Israel towards a ceasefire, Israel launched, with no previous warning, one of the most massive strikes since the beginning of the hostilities, allegedly causing hundreds of civilian victims. We were at the embassy with my delegation, just a few hundred metres from where the missiles struck. This must stop. The ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran must include Lebanon!  —— Je suis venu aujourd’hui à Beyrouth pour manifester notre soutien total aux autorités libanaises et exprimer notre profonde solidarité avec les familles touchées par le violent conflit qui oppose Israël au Hezbollah. Peu avant de féliciter le président Aoun d’avoir proposé d’entamer des négociations officielles avec Israël en vue d’un cessez-le-feu, Israël a lancé, sans aucun avertissement préalable, l’une des frappes les plus massives depuis le début des hostilités, qui aurait fait des centaines de victimes civiles. Nous étions à l'ambassade avec ma délégation, à quelques centaines de mètres seulement de l'endroit où les missiles ont frappé. Cela doit cesser. Le cessez-le-feu entre les États-Unis, Israël et l'Iran doit inclure le Liban ! —— Ik ben vandaag naar Beiroet gekomen om onze volledige steun te betuigen aan de Libanese autoriteiten en om onze diepe solidariteit te betuigen met de families die getroffen zijn door het gewelddadige conflict tussen Israël en Hezbollah. Net toen ik president Aoun prees voor zijn aanbod om officiële onderhandelingen met Israël te starten met het oog op een staakt-het-vuren, lanceerde Israël zonder enige voorafgaande waarschuwing een van de zwaarste aanvallen sinds het begin van de vijandelijkheden, waarbij naar verluidt honderden burgerslachtoffers zijn gevallen. We waren met mijn delegatie in de ambassade, op slechts een paar honderd meter van de plek waar de raketten insloegen. Dit moet stoppen. Het staakt-het-vuren tussen de VS, Israël en Iran moet ook Libanon omvatten! @BelgiumMFA @BelgiumLebanon

For more reporting on this see @HannahAllam for @propublica propublica.org/article/trump-…

In Iraq post-2003 and in the fight against ISIS the US had a system in place to both avoid killing civilians and (sometimes) pay reparations when it did. It was a flawed system but it existed. Hegseth has axed 90% of the CHMR program. So now when America kills, China pays

#Beirut Mar11 sunset to Mar12 sunrise including airstrikes & early morning jetblast that kept us all awake (Trigger warning: real audio)

Plotted the Israeli evacuation order over the entirety of Beirut’s southern suburbs. The evacuation order is a first of its kind and covers 22.4 km², compared to Beirut’s municipal area of about 20 km². I will post several zoom ins in this thread with satellite imagery overlays.

@BeirutCalling This also means that the airport is effectively shut down?

Israel orders the evacuation of several quarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs: Shiyah, Haret Hreik, Hadeth, and Burj al-Barajneh. This dramatic development makes me think of what a friend of mine said yesterday, namely that Israelis seek to recreate the Gaza example in the suburbs: lebanonfiles.com/2026/articles/…

#Israel orders mass evacuation of entire neighborhoods in southern suburbs of #Beirut-home to at least 1/2 million people. This comes after mass evacuation for 1/3 of south #Lebanon yesterday. A shift from evacuating buildings/targeted attacks. Total panic across the city.

🚨 #Urgent | L'armée israélienne a appelé, dans un message de son porte-parole arabophone, Avichay Adraee, à l'évacuation totale des quartiers de Haret Hreik, Bourj el-Brajné, Hadath et Chiyah, dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth.

@BouboutYassine_ In 2006 hebben de meeste landen hun onderdanen kosteloos geëvacueerd uit Libanon. Die evacuatie was nog bezig toen de oorlog al lang voorbij was. Ik denk dat veel landen daar lessen uit hebben getrokken

Geen expert hier. Is het gebruikelijk dat je zelf moet betalen voor repatriëringen?

A man walks alone on the beach after the Israeli army issued forced displacement orders (forced displacement is a war crime) for all of southern Lebanon, forcing tens of thousands of people north at once. The city of Tyre is largely empty at this point.

This is what is starting to happen all around the country. People are fed up and internal tensions are way more dangerous than external ones: With more and more displaced crossing the Litani into the North, and maybe soon, people coming from the Bekaa, Baalbek-Hermel, and Nabatieh, in addition to Dahyeh, many regions will be overwhelmed, and people will refuse to open their doors by fear of being struck by the IAF. We're talking of hundreds of thousands of individuals (between 500 000 and 1.2 million) trying to find a place to stay (there aren't even enough houses and apartments to house everyone). Several cities and villages have already refused the entry of Shia men (only accepting women, children, and the elderly). Others are screening every single displaced person and require a prior approval from the local municipality to make sure the ones taking refuge are not a possible target of the IDF. Suspicions, tensions and hatred are real. It's the second war in less than two years and people still haven't moved on from the last one. Even within the displaced population people are fighting (numerous videos circulate with dozens of men crying and pointing fingers at Hezbollah), women and their children tired of running condemning the Hezbollah leadership, and people in their cars stopping Hezbollah sympathizers playing the party's music loudly. Around me, most of my Shia friends are fed up and cannot take it anymore. And hear me out, none are supporting the West or Israel but they can't accept the fact that their lives and futures have been highjacked for years (taking hostage) by a bunch of warmongering men at on the paycheck of the Mullahs. The time when the Hezbollah leadership could do whatever it wanted while hoping the rest of the Lebanese society to clean after it is long gone.

Israel army says Lebanese civilians in all of southern Lebanon should evacuate to north of the Litani River

⚡#Guerre | L’armée israélienne ordonne l’évacuation de toutes les localités au sud du Litani.

People are making crank phone calls to Lebanon from Israeli numbers threatening airstrikes and leading to buildings and neighborhoods being evacuated unnecessarily — imagine being that evil

🚨 #Beyrouth | Le bureau de presse du Hezbollah a interdit, dans un communiqué envoyé aux journalistes, toute couverture médiatique dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth.

@BouboutYassine_ @TheRealDinges @grok AI is in deze volstrekt onbetrouwbaar. Ik heb Grok zien zeggen dat die beelden van vandaag zijn én dat ze van 2020 zijn (dood Suleimani). Over de beelden van de school zegt Gemini dat ze van Gaza 2024 zijn én van Peshawar 2014, en als je lang genoeg doorvraagt toch van Iran 2026

@TheRealDinges U vergist zich met andere beelden die verspreid werden. @grok are these videos of today?

Clip is van 2020

U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that 15,000 to 20,000 people, including Islamic State affiliates are now at large in Syria, after an exodus from a camp that held jihadists’ families wsj.com/world/middle-e… via @WSJ

@AmichaiChikli @BillWhiteUSA Yes because Muslims are famously opposed to circumcision - idiot

The Islamic Republic of Belgium is becoming increasingly unfit for Jewish life. Thank you to the United States Ambassador @BillWhiteUSA for fighting a determined rearguard battle.

MR heeft stedebouw geclaimd om alles wat @elkevdbrandt voorstelt te kunnen blokkeren