Live Lebanon with International War-zone Journalist

Vanessa Beeley (born 1963/1964) is a British activist and blogger

Beeley has travelled to Palestine where she lived through Israeli bombardments. In 2014, she started her blog titled The Wall Will Fall in which she supported the Palestinian cause.

Since 2015, Beeley has focused her activism on the Syrian civil war. She first visited Syria in July 2016.[9] That year, she met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus as part of a US Peace Council delegation, describing it as her “proudest moment”.[1][2][9] According to Bellingcat, Beeley was on the steering committee for the Syria Solidarity Movement.[15] After visiting Syria, Beeley went to Moscow to meet Russia’s deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov and director of information and press Maria Zakharova. An article by Janine di Giovanni in The New York Review of Books described Bogdanov as “Putin’s point man on Syria”.[2]