Lebanese Health Minister Dr. Firass Abiad told The New York Times on Tuesday that the “overwhelming majority, if not all,” of the people killed and wounded by Israel’s bombardment in Lebanon on Monday were civilians.
The death toll from Lebanon’s Health Ministry puts the number of killed by the Monday bombing at 558, which includes 50 children and 94 women. Nearly 2,000 were wounded in the attack.
The Times notes that Lebanon’s Health Ministry’s figures have historically been viewed as reliable. The ministry is not run by Hezbollah but is overseen by the Lebanese government and collects its data using an emergency operations center that gathers casualty figures from private and state-run hospitals.
Israel targeted residential areas of southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, claiming Hezbollah missiles were being hidden inside houses. The Israeli military said that it hit more than 1,600 targets, and experts say it’s one of the heaviest single-day bombings in modern warfare. The toll in Israel’s bombardment is about half of the toll for the entire 2006 Lebanon War, which lasted 34 days.
“Prior to the Gaza war, munitions deployed with this intensity and with this frequency would have been almost unheard-of,” Emily Tripp, director of the monitoring group Airwars, told the Times. “There is no comparison in terms of death toll or munitions use with previous 21st-century air campaigns of this nature, as far as we know.”
The US supported the Israeli bombardment despite previously claiming it opposed escalation and is sending more troops to the region as a show of support. Israeli strikes continue to hit Lebanon on Tuesday, and Hezbollah has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel in response.
If one house has a bomb hidden in its attic, all houses have bombs hidden in the attic. Israel's new standard rules of engagement. Formerly known as war crimes and collective punishment.
That is the problem with hiding weapons in houses. That makes all the potential houses target. Israel has a good idea but not a perfect idea which houses hold weapons. Some innocent houses will be destroyed.
There's no Israeli war crimes you don't support.
You're a monster, Tim.
”To err is human, to forgive is divine…”
Sorry Donna. I don’t forgive unrepentant supporters of genocide.
Do you support or condemn Oct 7?
As a day on the calendar ? Feel about the same on it as I do about August 3rd or January 29th.
To broad a question, and asked by a genocide supporting jackal, but I’ll play.
The attack on military and police bases and personnel on 10/7 was justified because under international law, an occupied people has a right to resist the occupiers.
The killing of civilians has to be condemned, but it should be noted that hundreds of Israeli civilians, at the very least, were killed by the IDF.
Nailed it.
Dips**t apologist. If I could force an answer from Major Burns, joke, or other X-Tinction Agendists able to shut off their intellect and Humanity to give the ASI a century of Season's Passes, it would be to this question :
"How you you stand to benefit personally, from your support of mass-murder, ethnic hatred, up to & including objective genocide ?"
Counter question: How do you benefit from your hatred of Israel?
I’ll answer, then you answer. Fair ? (Others are watching, keep your bargain…!)
I am indifferent to the COUNTRY of Israel. It is lines on a map.
I hold the NATION of Israel in the same regard as any other people. Totally human, totally worthy of friendship and cooperation and respect; just as easily my friend as anyone else could be.
I hate the Apartheid STATE of Israel. The STATE is hateful, selfish, greedy, callous, and driven by a mythology which, like ALL OTHER religions, is either not demonstrably true, demonstrably NOT true, and/or both. Give me a button that insta-kills every politician of the ASI who supports Zionism, genocide, and racism, and I’d have pushed it last WEEK.
These are honest answers consistent with my world view.
FURTHER: how do I benefit from staunch and stalwart opposition to the Apartheid STATE of Israel?
I benefit when Humanity benefits.
I benefit when a religion, ANY religion, is not permitted to force their unproven, mythological s**t on other religions, on nonbelievers, on science, on politics. I benefit this way because OTHERS, many many others, will lead better lives when f**kwits can't say "Muh old book says I can…(slaughter, denigrate, banish, hurt)…Those People Over There." and MAKE HIDEOUS S**T HAPPEN.
I benefit when the NATION of Israel is not made a stereotype and a target for others by the leaders of the STATE of Israel, and the NATION of Israelis can live happy, free, and peaceful – and so can their non-Israeli neighbours.
Bombing house containing weapons is not a war crime. Every military action of Israel you label as a war crime. Was the raid on Entebbe a war crime? It is in your mind.
You are a Israel hater, Joe boy.
Are you really trying to claim all of the tens of thousands of houses bombed by Israel were weapons depots? that’s an implausible and monstrous lie in defense of mass murder.
“You are a Israel hater, Joe boy.” And proud of it!’
Death to the mass murderers!
Death to Israel!
And when those who are relegated to having to hide their weapons amongst the civilian population because they aren't supported by a super power use tactics similar to Israel's, it will be called terrorism.
Good you admit that the terrorists hide weapons amount civilian. Now the next step is to understand that destroying those weapons will result in civilians losses.
"Amount" civilians? Did I say that? But it's cute that you think you are catching me saying something that you think makes the state sponsored terrorism of Israel any more justified.
and we have to take Israel's word for it that even 1 house had a bomb hidden in it's attic. do Lebanese houses even have attics?
Maybe lofts ? Lofts were big in the '80s.
Do you take the word of Lebanon that mostly only civilians die in Israel air strikes?
ay then my ukraine would get wiped off the face of earth.
Lebanon speaking now at UN and are preparing to fight back!
Yes,lebanon should rid themselves of Hez,and end this war.
Israel will cease to exist if it maintains its current genocidal path. Sadly most of the population there has been brainwashed into supporting mass murder and torture..which leaves little empathy for them when real hell comes…
Meanwhile,Israel has received rocket fire from Lebanon for 50 years.They have received daily rocket fire sinceOctober.Hez has planned to destroy Israel,and preaches hated of peole of that particular faith.Isral has every moral rioght to react with massivbe force to end the threat.
Jake if you really cared about Israel you would demand that it abandons all of is colonial and segregationist sociopathy and forge a path to peace. If you love this state this is the only path, or it will die by the sword. What it has done in Gaza, the WB, and now Lebanon will not stand, and will bring an end to Israel…period
I think most Israelis are not so far gone into cognitive dissonance that they cannot have a late Moral Awakening and see what hideous s**t has been done by hideous people "to protect them".
There is no (NO) number of childrens' lives I would trade for my own safety, or that of my Country, or that of my Nation, or ESPECIALLY not the State. NONE.
Palestine should rid itself of Israel.
Oh,the way you mean the Russian reds killed off everyone else that fought along side them in the Russian Revolution.
No, the way South Africa got rid of apartheid.
So the expulsion of Jews from their millenia old homes on the Mid East-was that not an act of apartheid?
What's an "East-was" ?
Not every evil thing is apartheid.
What makes the Israeli regime an apartheid regime is its demand to continuously rule people and territory under a set of ethnic segregation and supremacy rules.
If the Israeli regime announced that it was annexing the West Bank and conferring full Israeli citizenship and full equal rights on the inhabitants thereof, that would also entail some bad things, but it would no longer be “apartheid.”
No. Isreal encouraged the immigration of Jews from Arab nations.
“Palestinians and Jews fled their homes in different contexts and the former cannot be blamed for the fate of the latter. The complex history of the Palestinian refugees should not be reduced to a simple analogy with no evidentiary basis….
” it must be noted that, contrary to Palestinian refugees, many of whom were expelled or fled in fear, a large percentage of Jews left out of a desire to join their “Eretz Yisrael” (Land of Israel)….
“It should, therefore, not be surprising that many Israeli officials have rejected the term ‘refugee’. As Knesset speaker Yisrael Yeshayahu noted in 1975, ‘We are not refugees. [Some of us] came to this country before the state was born. We had messianic aspirations.’
“Former Knesset member Ran Cohen went a step further by saying: ‘I have this to say: I am not a refugee […] I came at the behest of Zionism, due to the pull that this land exerts, and due to the idea of redemption. Nobody is going to define me as a refugee.’
“By contrast, a large part of the Palestinian population is now second, third or fourth-generation refugees still living in camps.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/6/24/the-palestinian-refugees-and-the-monologue-of-the-century/#:~:text=In%201948,%20about%20450%20Palestinian%20villages%20were%20razed%20to%20the
"By contrast, a large part of the Palestinian population is now second, third or fourth-generation refugees still living in camps." As long as they keep getting free food and housing from the UN why not live in a camp?
You really are a vile person. No wonder you’re a Zionist pig.
Isrealis are mass murdering filtlth and your a filthy supporter of mass murder.
"Palestine should rid itself of Israel" They have been trying to do that for 76 years.
76 years is but a moment in the history of the region.
Palestine will be free.
Step One: End all US aid to Israel!
And Hezbollah is only targeting military sites, as far as I know.
Unfortunately their missiles use GPS for navigation, if Israel decides to scramble GPS signals then they become unguided dumb bombs. They haven't done that yet, probably in part because their own US-supplied weapons also need GPS for targeting.
I’m no expert on culture, but I’ve read from others that Hezbollah’s religious convictions are what is restricting harm to civilians with their focus on military targets. I can’t confirm.
There’s that, and Hezbollah recognizes that it doesn’t have the narrative control of the western press that Israel has so to appear more moral than their barbarian neighbors they need to limit civilian casualties. Probably more of the former, though. That’s at least in part the reason why Iran has never gone forward with developing a nuclear weapon or other WMD, Shiia Islam (from what little I know) seems to be more strict about protecting innocents than Sunni Islam (especially the Wahhabists).
That's because Hezbollah knows they won't achieve nothing to weaken Israel by targeting civilians…!
Maybe.
Israel thinks it is judge, juror and executioner over the entire Middle East if not world.
That should concern all rational humans.
Except being concerned about this is anti-Semitic. According to pro-Israel billionaires and their lapdogs in the federal government.
Totally concur!
That's the ASI's plan. Totally conquer.
If you say you hate palestinian state nobody cares
if you say you hate israeli state, then you will get labelled as a nazi antisemite jew hater
The entire Zionist construct is an affront to Judaism. The Zionists use Judaism as a scapegoat to attack all people calling what Israel is…
Yeah
The Zionists recreated Israel so that people of whatever Jewish back round could live with increased safety.
Turned out splendid. Seems living on stolen land & taking more for your own has worked as well for Zionists as it did for Europeans colonising North America & Africa in the 100-300 years previous.
Zionism is an affront to Judaism and endangers Jews worldwide because of its genocidal, and sociopathic beliefs. If there is antisemitism it is because of Israel and its flock of utter lemmings…
And incorrectly so. The Nation (people) is not the State (government) and the widespread hate is for the actions and decisions of the State.
"if you say you hate israeli state, then you will get labelled as a nazi antisemite jew hater" Well that is what that person is.
Yes, why not?. The sick man of middleeast should’ve never been allowed to roam free. Now let him have some fun with the nurses.
eye for eye and tooth for tooth
[on israel]
I think we are way past the Old Testament verse.
Israel is tired of taking it.No missiles from Lebanon into Israel,no bombing of Lebanon.
Some how people think that Lebanon can fire into Israel and Israel is only allow to fire back an equal amount.
Israel has illegally occupied the Sheeba Farms for years, and they should fire on Israel in response to Israel's premeditated genocide.
Be clear, Israel had this planned well before October 7th. They are cunning masters of deception and propaganda…the best at it…
Well, while I truly understand your sentiments and have felt the same at times, we truly want a long and lasting peace between all people!
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How do you know who Sheeba farms belong to?
The Sheeba Farms have always been a part of Lebanon. Israel has no physical connection to that piece of land, much like the Golan Heights which belongs to Syria.
Lbanon invaed Isrl in 1948.Let Lebanon offer a peace treaty in return for Sheeba farms.
Lebanon never gave the Sheeba Farms to Israel, and why would they?
Weird how we understand "proportion" and "nuance".
Everyone else is tired of taking it from Israel. Now the end comes. Israel has gone too far, and is self-destructing.
Palestine attacked Israel on Oct 7. The Hez charter calles for destruction of Israel,and hated of Jews everywhere .Hez has been firing missiles at Israel for years,more so lately.Israel is now carrying out righteous self defense.
The Hezbollese "charter" is a wish-list (motive) not backed up by solid offensive capability (means) or a sufficiently distracted ASI (opportunity). We could take a James Bond villain just as seriously in real life.
No, Israel attacked Lebanon, constantly for decades. Hezbollah is a defense force that resists the murderous attacks of the monsters from Israel.
Always some lame excuse for mass murder.
As Hamas supporters did on Oct 7.
And as Israelis did for decades before that.
Noun. Verb. Oct 7th.
Yep. Sully's purpose in life. That, and avoiding the SHIFT key, SPACE bar, and basic punctuation.
Israel is fighting to survive among a bunch of fanatics. Totally just.
"Totally just."
Oh, joke, you just opened a door right there.
Tell us – "just" according to what and whose definition of the word ?
And upon what standard are you basing this "just(ice)" claim ? International law ? Codified law of the Apartheid State of Israel ? Robert's Rules of Order ?
We would love to know whose standards you are following, and whose rule-book everyone "has to" follow in your world…
Yes, but impunity has its breaking point.
"…that the “overwhelming majority, if not all,” of the people killed and wounded by Israel’s bombardment in Lebanon on Monday were civilians."
ASI government: "Hezbollah. All of them. Kids ? 'Hezbollah Youth' members. Hospitals? Hezbollah missile silos. Children's Hospitals ? Oh, those are the WORST of the WORST, child-sized Hezbollah missile silos."
With you all the way Uncle S.!
Hez hides among civilians,exposing them to war.
Jake tells tired lies to justify genocide.
jake defends mass murderers of children.
He’s just a bit lost at times, that’s all.
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https://youtu.be/aSMZnWIJRCg?t=15
You defend mass murder,when the victims happen to be Israeli civilians.
That’s a false accusation Jake.
I’ve never defended mass murder in any situation.
I have not defended either side’s killing of civilians on 10/7 or since.
You have.
Ziombie Jake.
“Hamas have Human shield”
“Hamas start it”
“Hamas hide in hospital ”
“Hamas eat dead baby brain”
“Yum!”
Just wait 'til he forgets to edit his Copy/Paste and leaves (Hamas) in where he means (Hezbollah).
False.
In his defense – only children that are the Enemy of the Apartheid State of Israel. "Then it's okay !", right, joke ?
Would that your 19th century style of Napoleonic War “let’s all wear bright opposing colors and stand in facing lines in a big open field & trade cannonballs and musket shot until one side isn’t completely dead” was still A Thing, Sully.
But not-curiously, warfare as f**king EVOLVED. And as much as you’d love an easy slaughter for your vaunted IDF thugs and their vassal American forces, few people share your idiotic and outdated view of how war is “asposta happen.”
Perhaps if your IDF black & tans came out & fought the Hamassians and Hezbollese like a man, show their wives how they won medals down in Flanders – instead of blitz-bombing and indiscriminately murdering, you might see the other side mildly less likely to take ANY advantage they can get.
Hez embeds itself among civilians-blame Hez.
I don’t think Hezbollah does any civilian-blaming. Where did you get that idea, Sully ?
"The WORST of the WORST" are the regimes our own "WORST of the WORST" regime supports. Which makes our own regime THE MOTHER OF ALL THE WORST OF THE WORST REGIMES.
Waiting for both Harris and Rump to declare, "I support this message!"
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waiting for trump and harris to declare:
"AIPAC owns our asses!! You already knew, but HoNeStY iS tHe BeSt PoLicY!!"
From b at Moon of Alabama.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/09/the-war-about-palestine-has-reached-its-next-stage.html#more
Since yesterday Israel launched a myriad of air strikes targeting alleged Hizbullah firing positions in civilian areas of mostly south Lebanon. Over the day some 400 people in Lebanon have been killed and nearly 2,000 have been wounded. Hundreds of thousands people living in south-Lebanon have fled or are fleeing northwards.
Hizbullah responded by targeting military installations and industrial installations for militarily relevant production. It is expected to soon use more sophisticated weapons to hit targets in Tel Aviv, 120 km from the border, and beyond.
While there will be many pictures of damage and casualties from Lebanon there will only be few reports of Hizbullah hits in Israel.
The Israeli government has (again) issued a general directive to all media to refrain from picturing and reporting of any damage. The military censors, which sit in every news room, will make sure that these orders are followed.
The war in the north will continue like this for days, weeks and months.
It is a war of moral attrition. [I think he means "morale".]
Which population will be first to call for an end of the fight?
How long will the pampered population of Tel Aviv sit for days and nights in bunkers without asking for change?
Will the Shia of Lebanon, who's religion is endorsing suffering and the will to die as a martyr, be the first to cry for an end?
I for one will never bet against Shia religiosity or Hizbullah's ability to sustain a fight.
Oh, a note about Moon of Alabama. While their comments section tends to be an absolute sewer there are almost always several commenters with links to interesting material so frequently worth plodding through.
What happened over there? It seemed more scholarly, reasoned and now, it got crazy.
It’s been infested with some loonies for a while, but because of the quality of b’s research and analysis the long-timers seem to be staying around. I wish I could say the same about SlashDot.
So this was a Terrorist act. No different from 9-11. And the American people are paying for it.
Так
Hi Christian,
What does that mean, out of curiosity.
Thanks.
«Yes»
Thanks for letting me know.
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Of course
We do pay for it, very much so…. Well said Warren.
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We seen this playbook before. First attack Israel. Second position assets where Israel attack on those assets will results in civilian losses. Third keep a daily running total of civilian and count the death terrorists as civilians. Fourth when the count gets to a certain number chant "genocide".
Lebanon has fired on Israel for 11 months in support of Gaza. Now they are paying the price. The old saying "don't do the crime if you are not willing to do the time" comes to mind.
You are a master of satire Tim, but sadly you are pushing Zionist propaganda. Israel has brought all of the wrath that is coming upon itself. IF it were a peaceful and just state that was not an illegal occupier, and mass murderer, then I very much doubt it would have its current troubles.
Israel has chosen to be the outlaw, the one who THINKS it can write the rules, but not abide by them. Hezbollah will hopefully be one of those mechanisms of resistance that exacts some payback…
Zionism. one big blood soaked lie.
The people dropping the bombs and pulling he triggers are responsible for the war crimes that they're committing.
You're a monster Timmy.
But before they attack, they have to hope that Israel ignores the warnings 3 days beforehand from Egypt and their very own IDF soldiers saying there was abnormal activity going on. And of course, the IDF has to fail to give the organizers of the music festival a heads up that an attack was possible. They needed lots of dead people to be able to try to justify what was to follow. And that was the start of their genocidal response that has continued to this day. So, anything happening since is just a continuation of the original playbook.
absolutely disgusting for the world to sit by and do nothing about'
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
did i get that right?
The zionist thirst for killing, murdering, slaughter and genocide of Lebanese and Palestinians civilians, and its subsequent immunity have grown substantially since 2006… and that is because of US direct complicity and cover-up…!
The only thing more horrible than a battle won is a battle lost.
This is what Lebanon looks like on the way to Israel's defeat.
That is going to be ugly, really horrible. They'll deserve it, too.
A war of attrition, thus far… Until it all explodes and the you know what hits the dang fan!
Potential WWIII!
Of course they're 99 percent civilians. Hezbollah's military units are sitting underground, impervious to air attacks.
The claim that Hezbollah is storing weapons in civilian structures isn't entirely wrong – since Hezbollah members live in ordinary houses in peace time and no doubt store their small arms just like the Swiss military does.
But heavy weapons are stored underground. Israel is just claiming weapons are stored in houses to justify massacring civilians just as they claim Hamas members are in refugee tent cities.
The bottom line is Israel simply wants to kill everyone in the Middle East who isn't Jewish. Their rabbis declare that is God's command – and that's backed up by the personal greed offered by things like the oil and gas and the Ben Gurion Canal project.
Standard religious behavior: justify your rapacity by appealing to a deity.
I cannot imagine the level of Karma which will, out of necessity, be visited upon the Israelis. There is no force in our universe which can prevent this. Sometimes one has to wait for it, but as certain that the sun rises in the East every day, it will come, it will come.
So, let me get this straight – anyone in Lebanon who is repulsed by these actions and wants revenge is a "terrorist"? That, in a nutshell, is the double standard that has put us all at this point in history. SHAME on the USA "leaders" who enable these monstrous crimes against innocent people! The media always calls Israeli actions "revenge" when it is Israeli actions that are spreading the flames of war! American media's "coverage" of the Middle East is so one-sided it makes me sick!