The Ibrahimi mosque/Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron/Khalil has been a flash point for decades. It was split into Muslim and Jewish sides after Israeli settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein massacred 29 Palestinian worshipers in 1994. From Ma'an News Agency, Aug. 28 (via Kibush):

Israeli settlers break into Muslim side of Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron

Hebron – Israeli settlers broke into the Al Is`haqiyyah area of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday night.

Eleven Israeli settlers broke through the main gate of the Ibrahimi Mosque in spite of attempts by the mosque`s guards to prevent them entering.

An International Solidarity Movement press release, Aug. 25:

Peace Demonstrators Beaten in Bil’in

At today’s weekly demo against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in soldiers attacked protesters with batons and fired rubber bullets at them from close range. Around 100 protesters including international and Israeli peace activists marching from the village mosque to the site of the Wall were confronted by lines of soldiers in riot gear at the edge of the village. Without provocation or intimidation the soldiers waded into the demonstration lashing out indiscriminately at the marchers. An American peace activist, Magan, suffered a concussion and severe bruising after being beaten on the forehead whilst Anna an American activist suffered severe hand injuries.

A seldom-talked about occupation and resistence. From IMEMC, Aug. 25:

Secret Resistance Committee founders in the Occupied Golan enter their 22nd year in prison
by Saed Bannoura

August 24 2006 marks the twenty-second year since the arrest of the founders of the Secret resistance movement in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

The Arabs48 news website reported that the Secret Resistance Movement is the first military movement in the Golan Heights and that it was established after Israel decided to consider the Syrian occupied Golan Heights as part of the State of Israel in December 14, 1981.

Mike di Paola writes an excellent summary of the environmental and archeological damage from the Lebanese war for Bloomberg, Aug. 15. One of the coastal areas affected by an Israeli bombing-induced oil slick is the ancient Phoenician Canaanite harbor of Byblos. Di Paola writes:

Despite the ceasefire, Israeli soldiers fanned out across the Litani river, and between 10 - 30,000 may remain in Lebanon, creating certain logistics problems. According to Ha'aretz, Aug. 14:

IDF general: Soldiers may steal food from south Lebanon stores
"If our fighters deep in Lebanese territory are left without food our water, I believe they can break into local Lebanese stores to solve that problem," Brigadier General Avi Mizrahi, the head of the Israel Defense Forces logistics branch, said Monday.

Indigenous Middle Eastern Jewry, from Lebanon, Morocco, and Iran, have issued recent condemnations of the Israeli assaults on Lebanon and Palestine.

The first here is from the Jews of Lebanon website. Lebanese Jewry goes back to 1000 B.C., and did not empty out in 1948, as many Middle Eastern Jewish populations did, most emigrating to Israel. The bulk of Lebanese Jewry left during the Lebanese civil wars from 1975-92. There are some 100 members of the community remaining today.

54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children, were killed in an Israeli Air Force strike on a 3-story building in the city of Qana in south Lebanon on July 30. (NYT, July 30) From Israel's largest newspaper,Yediot Aharonot, July 30:

Yesha Rabbinical Council: During time of war, enemy has no innocents
The Yesha Rabbinical Council announced in response to an IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that "according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy."

An ad-hoc coalition press release, July 29:

1500 Protesters March Across the Brooklyn Bridge in Solidarity With the Palestinian and Lebanese People
New York, NY - 1500 members of the New York community, horrified at the senseless killing of Palestinians and Lebanese by the Israeli military, marched across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan today to demand an end to the violence.