Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.
The Israeli military has ordered people living in more than a quarter of Lebanon to flee, according to a UN calculation, as its fight with the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hizbollah threatens to engulf the Mediterranean country.
Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.
More than 1mn people have fled their homes in Lebanon in under a month, according to its government, a dramatic forced movement of the population in a country of only about 5mn inhabitants with a land mass smaller than the US state of Connecticut.
Israeli forces began a ground offensive in south Lebanon two weeks ago, in their fourth invasion of the country in under five decades.
They had already destroyed large parts of the densely populated southern Beirut suburb where Hizbollah had its headquarters, and killed many top militant commanders in air strikes, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Rema Jamous Imseis, Middle East director of UNHCR, told journalists in Geneva that “over 25 per cent of [Lebanon is] under a direct Israeli military evacuation order”. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” she added, saying that 80 per cent of the shelters opened by the Lebanese government — mostly in schools — were now full.
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This is what happens when Trump's aggressive policies towards Iran continue to echo. Biden's administration needs to break from this cycle, not feed it. The human cost here is staggering, and yet, where's the global outcry?
@Mellow1972Libertarian2yrs2Y
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What's infuriating is the selective outrage. If this was happening in a Western country, the world would stop. But Lebanon? It's just another headline until the next crisis steals the spotlight.
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This is beyond politics; it's a humanitarian crisis. People are fleeing with nothing! We need global environmental and humanitarian policies, not more military actions. When will the world learn?
This is exactly why stronger international governance is needed. The UN should have more power to intervene and prevent these tragedies, not just report on them after the fact.
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My honest opinion is that we should be there only when Israel is in deep trouble, but otherwise Israel can defend itself, it should be allowed to do anything they can wipe these evil terrorists off the Earth, civilian casualties are inevitable, it's not as bad as HAMAS beheading babies & lets stop blaming Trump for every little thing. It's bad enough when MSMBC blamed Trump for making the Hurricane physically worse which was untrue, but lets stop politicising crisis, these should be times to come together & lets stop supporting terrorists.
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