Just days after using a trebuchet to set fires to farmland across the southern Lebanon border, the Israeli military is looking to make fire even more of a weapon of war, striking several southern towns with phosphorous bombs.
The towns of Houla, Tallouseh, Adaisseh, and Kfar Kela were all reported hit, with civil defense forces out in forces across the area to try to keep the fires subsequently set under control.
This isn’t necessarily easy for firefighters, especially compared to the incidental fires which result from ordinary military strikes on both sides of the border. Used as incendiary devices, the phosphorous bombs tend to set fires that spread more quickly than ordinarily.
That has the potential to be another legal concern with Israel’s ongoing wars. The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons includes clauses that severely regulate the use of incendiary weapons. Though not outright illegal, they are meant to be banned in use against civilian populations.
Hezbollah responded with a flurry of rocket fire against Israeli troops gatherings along the border. It has yet to be confirmed, but Hezbollah says they believe they injured Israeli soldiers in some of the strikes.
Reports have the Biden Administration expressing increased worries about Israel’s repeated escalations in Lebanon, concerned that the United States will be dragged into the conflict. Britain had reportedly informed Lebanon that they believe Israel plans to start a war in mid-June.
Israel hasn’t commented on the timing of a war directly, but military brass and members of the war council have repeatedly emphasized their readiness for such a conflict, while presenting it as all but an inevitability.
“I’m worried, so worried. Please pass my position on to propaganda press. What more can I do, but nothing?”~hologram Joe Biden and Butcher Blinken.
All Israel ever does is violate others and when those violated respond they get labelled "terrorist" and attacked. This is what Israel wants- bait the "enemy" into action then attack them as a "terrorist, with, of course, their lapdog USA backing it all the way! Disgusting and I hope God Almighty has a real good answer to all this!
Lebanon invaded Israel in 1947-1948,and has never signed a peace treaty. Israel has received rocket fore from Lebanon for many decades.Hezbollah has attempted tunneling into Israel as a prelude to invasion. Lebanon and its inhabitants have violated Israel for decades,and must expect a just response.
Good response. Didn't address a damn thing about the point he was making. Just more justification for doing anything they damn well please. But that's how you roll
Learn to read. Hezbollah is violating Israeli territory by firing missiles into Israel.feel better.
I'd say the same to you but it's obvious you don't read half the comments you reply to. You reach into your bag of limited replies and post it whether it's relevant to the comment you are replying to or not.
You do not know the premise. The British Mandate gave the new illegal state of israel 45% of the lands of Palestine. Was not enough. So the ensuing violence.
"The British Mandate gave" No. If was the UN decision. A decision that was rejected by the Arabs.
The Arab's stated plan was to drive the Jews into the sea. They failed. Is Russia illegal? The US declared independence,so did Israel.Get used to it.
Israel has maintained an illegal occupation for decades. And there is no justification for the murderous "settlers" being in the West Bank.
Jordan used the West Bank to fire into Israel.They lost the the West Bank- totally legal-use a weapon-loose the weapon.
When does Israel ever follow the rules of war? Chosenites make their own rules, right out of the Old Testament, kill everything that breaths.
Literally trying to start a holocaust in Megiddo.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to perceive the humanity of Israel as a nation among nations and thereby to not wish for its complete destruction as a Midas finger of the netherworld. So many rockets, missiles and drones, targeted and constrained by leaders possessing the most profound moral strength and certitude many have ever witnessed in real life.
Infinite patience and absolute faith in a process of maturation allows even the most evil children to survive into adulthood. And as moral people, we do not strike down our children no matter what they do, no matter how evil they behave. We help them by imposing structures to correct their behavior but they, like Israel, pay no heed, and because we recognize our humanity and the humanity of Israel's victims, we relent and continue to hope against hope as we scream our agonized witnessing alone.
How many more years and how many more dead bodies until Israel is meaningfully punished? Is physical reality and its eventual death for everyone the only legitimate moral authority now?
I feel as though one day we'll realize our existence itself as a species is and has always been immoral because we cannot cooperate with any living thing or operate within any living system for too long before destroying it all. Are we collectively a disease, a terminal blight, with delusions of human potential? There's something about universal dishonesty passing for custom and respect for authority, something about learned submission to power, that engenders evil among all parties.
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War is bad;the free people of Israel have right to respond to aggression.
Another good response(/s). The man makes a very well thought out comment and you answer with more pithy bullshit.
The free occupying people of Israel, living lovely carefree lives, with nice homes, nice lawns, plenty of electricity to power the swimming pool filters, paved roads, while ignoring what was happening on the other side of the barbed wire, walls. Just like the small towns next to the NAZI camps played dumb to what was going on in the camps. So too did the free occupying people of Israel. As an added feature, the free people of Israel were taught at a very young age to detest, hate the people living in the concentration camp next to their lovely homes.
Maybe the people if Israel do not love their neighbors because they were invaded by 5 Arab neighbors,terrorists killed Israelis for 75 years,Nasser said his mission was to destroy Israel,Iran the same.Arabs also often teach their kids hate.The Bitselem peace village was wiped out Oct 7.
More clear evidence of the Zionists ambition for expanding their land base, with total disregard for any international laws or borders. Of course, they're simply defending themselves. Netanyahu, the fascist dictator, wants all the lands clear of arabs and our western nations are accomplices…
They are the "chosen". Joe Bidette believes it is so. Palestinians? Joe believes they are dirt.
As if Hamas holds regular elections,and does not want all the land.
Hamas would cease to exist if the 1967 border was reestablished. Unlike the zionist who want Lebanon, Jordan and Syrians lands. Reminiscent of the 3rd reichs ambitions, craxy how similar the zionists and nazis are. Loved the hitler qoute from Israel yesterday, clearly the zionist admired hitlers politics. Folks like you always lap up populist leaders, do their dirty work for them.
Hamas wants it all.Read and study more.
Cowards…!
The Israelis are naturals as war criminals. They've finally found their purpose on planet Earth. Uncle Sam must be so very proud of his protégé.
That has the potential to be another legal concern with Israel’s ongoing wars.
Well, if it gets too nasty for them the US will just admit to the US using the same shit in their own adventures. Like Miley and Kirby already have done regarding other war crimes Israel has done. Or maybe Lindsey Graham can point out our firebombings during WW2. We always try claim moral superiority but sometimes we revert to truth if the little parasite is getting too much heat.
Israel is daring Hezbollah to unleash h*ll on Tel Aviv. I really hope they do not hit the chlorine plants in Tel Aviv. Other gases are manufactured there.
What other gasses are made there? BTW. The chlorine made in Israel is also used to purify water in the West Bank. Guess whose supply of chlorine will get cut or stopped if the plant is damaged?