from +972’s Sunday Recap +972Magazine [published in Israel]

April 19, 2026

It remains unclear whether the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon that took effect Thursday will hold. In any case, Dimi Reider argued, it’s unlikely to stop Israel’s expansionist ambitions. Efforts to establish buffer zones and “natural borders,” he wrote, suggest that ongoing ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon is far from over.

Also:

• Why I will not stand for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day siren
• Can a renewed Joint List survive until Israel’s elections?
• Brief, arbitrary abductions: A new tool of Israeli intimidation in Masafer Yatta
• PODCAST: The disappeared of Gaza