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Jamie Prentis

Jamie Prentis

Lebanon correspondent
Location
Beirut
Jamie is a British journalist and has been a correspondent at the Beirut bureau since March 2022, where he covers Lebanese affairs and the wider region. Before that he was a reporter at the London bureau for nearly four years. Before joining The National he worked for the Libya Herald and covered the country for outlets including The Times.
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Q&A replay: Second week of Iran war
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Q&A replayUS-Iran war and regional attacks

Lebanon mourns deaths of hundreds of civilians and Gulf countries face continued attacks – your questions answered

MENAMarch 10, 2026
Israeli soldiers gather around their battle tanks near the border with Lebanon. AFP
Israeli strike kills priest as war with Hezbollah spreads in south Lebanon

Israel says it attacked 'Hezbollah cell' in Christian village, killing clergyman and injuring residents

MENAMarch 09, 2026
The notebook that belonged to Miral Abdel Al Sater, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Baalbek. Jake Pace Lawrie for The National
DispatchPink schoolbook in rubble tells story of 83 Lebanese children killed by Israel

Nearly 400 people, including 42 women and nine medics, have been killed in Lebanon as war escalates

MENAMarch 09, 2026
An elderly woman looks on as people, displaced from the southern suburbs of Beirut, gather at Martyrs' Square in Beirut. Reuters
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'All of life is gone:' Lebanese mothers despair on Women's Day

Hundreds of thousands displaced across Lebanon

MENAMarch 08, 2026
Ron Arad, an Israeli Air Force navigator missing since he bailed out over Lebanon in 1986, in an undated handout photo released by Israel’s Channel One in 2008. Reuters
DispatchGhost of Ron Arad draws Israel back into a Lebanese village

Nearly four decades after the pilot vanished in Lebanon, Israel is again pulled into Nabi Chit

MENAMarch 08, 2026
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Israeli commando operation in Lebanese village kills dozens

Nabi Chit comes under attack as Israeli army searches for information or remains of missing pilot Ron Arad

MENAMarch 07, 2026
Baalbek has come under bombardment as Israel and Hezbollah return to full-scale fighting. Photo: Jake Pace Lawrie
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Dispatch‘Back to zero’: Israel's war wipes out Baalbek’s fragile recovery

Strikes and forced displacement orders are dashing hopes that the ancient city’s revival would help support Lebanon's battered economy

MENAMarch 06, 2026
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs. Getty Images
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Israel bombs Beirut after forcing hundreds of thousands to flee southern suburbs

Lebanese government opens sports arenas to host displaced people in capital

MENAMarch 06, 2026
People leave the Comfort Hotel in Baabda, Lebanon, after it was hit by an Israeli air strike. AFP
Israel begins 'wave of strikes' after ordering most of south Lebanon to leave

Military expanding strikes beyond traditional Hezbollah strongholds

MENAMarch 05, 2026
The US has given Lebanon indirect guarantees that Israel will not strike Beirut’s airport and port. EPA
ExclusiveUS guarantees Israel will not strike Beirut airport but Hezbollah rockets test red lines

Indirect assurances protect Lebanon’s air and sea gateways, but continued Hezbollah fire could widen Israel’s campaign to Lebanese infrastructure

MENAMarch 03, 2026
The aftermath of an Israeli attack on Beirut's southern suburbs. Reuters
Israel advances into Lebanon in push to take more territory

Military sent ​additional forces to south of country ⁠overnight

MENAMarch 03, 2026
Israel resumed its bombardment of Beirut on Monday after overnight rocket fire. AFP
Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill dozens after Hezbollah rocket attack

Militants say first attack since November 2024 is in 'revenge for blood of Khamenei'

MENAMarch 02, 2026
Hezbollah supporters wave Iranian and Lebanese flags in a rally in Beirut. AFP
Depleted Hezbollah signals restraint as US warns war could spill into Lebanon

Group says it will not stay neutral if Iran is attacked but stops short of pledging military action, even as US evacuates embassy

MENAFebruary 24, 2026
A convoy of Unifil peacekeepers passes through the southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, near the border with Israel. AFP
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'By day and by night': Unifil and Lebanese army seek to firm up control of south Lebanon

The National tours border area with UN peacekeepers after army completed phase one of disarming Hezbollah

MENAFebruary 21, 2026
A car surrounded by rubble after Israeli strikes on Ali Al Nahri in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley. AFP
Hezbollah warns Israel over escalating attacks in Lebanon after strikes kill 12

Attacks in east and south among deadliest in recent weeks

MENAFebruary 20, 2026
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