Israel wages war on Lebanon using its tactics from Gaza
Al Jazeera
As Israel wages war on Lebanon, it is deploying some of the same devastating tactics that it used to destroy Gaza.
Beirut, Lebanon – “Lebanon, as we know it, will not exist.”
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His threat followed similar statements by far-right Israeli ministers that called for the destruction of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
A year ago, Israeli ministers supported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ostensible war aim to “eradicate” Hamas in Gaza, after the Palestinian group’s armed wing led an attack on southern Israel in which 1,139 people were killed and about 250 were taken captive on October 7, 2023.
Under that pretext, Israel has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza, uprooted nearly the entire population of 2.3 million people, destroyed all civilian infrastructure and generated conditions for mass famine.
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