In the two weeks since the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire went into effect, Israel has launched an ever growing number of attacks against southern Lebanon. These attacks have killed dozens of people, mostly civilians. Until today, these violations have been almost exclusively along the southern border.
Overnight, Israel carried out an airstrike against a three-story civilian home in northern Lebanon’s Akkar Province. Strikes this far north have been unusual, though not unheard of, even before the ceasefire. Israel has provided no indication why it attacked this particular home.
The bomb didn’t explode as intended, and crashed unexploded into the building, causing considerable damage. Civilian homes were also destroyed in Israeli attacks further south, including in the village of Khiyyam.
All told, at least a dozen airstrikes have been reported against southern Lebanon towns and villages. There were reports of artillery strikes in the south as well. One person was confirmed to be killed on Tuesday, in the town of Bint Jbeil.
Since the “ceasefire” on November 27 Israel has directed roughly 160 attacks at towns and villages, mostly in Lebanon’s south. Now, in addition to the fear of these attacks worsening, locals are reporting that a number of drones have been seen flying at low altitude over the suburbs of the capital of Beirut. These suburbs were a popular target earlier in the war but haven’t seen any strikes for the past two weeks.
Despite itself having committed so many ceasefire violations, Israel continues to accuse Lebanon of violations of the ceasefire. Previous claims of violations involved civilians in civilian vehicles traveling in southern Lebanon. More recently, claims accused people thought to be Hezbollah of operating in buildings believed to be “weapons storage facilities.”
Though Hezbollah has launched a single strike against Israeli troops inside Lebanon in response to the Israeli attacks, the overwhelmingly majority of the strikes being carried out are Israel against Lebanese soil, and a large number of those against civilians. Despite that, the ceasefire has yet to be formally declared a failure.
Expect more of this as Lebanon is also ended as a society now that Hezbollah's resupply if cut off. I can't imagine how Iran and Russia think selling the Levant downriver is a wise move for them even short term.
Truth is, there's not much that Russia or Iran could do about it, so they just let it happen. Israel is so over-extended right now that it's only a matter of time…
Maybe they knew they could not win and need to hold on to their powder expecting the Iran invasion. The USA/NATO keep feeding Zelensky and demand more Ukrainian cannon fodder like lowering the draft age, to weaken and distract Russia from Iran. Syria has been weakened by years of SANCTIONS, economic warfare and bombings, and a population in poverty. They could not pay their soldiers or provide shoes for their soldiers. Maybe Assad was right to not waste the nation in another bloodbath like Gaza and Lebanon and his own end to be tortured including brutally sodomized and killed like Gadhafi.
MSM implies that Assad was a brutal dictator, sounds like demonization. Our democracies have brutal war criminals as leaders, people like Netanyahu, Biden, and accomplices, in NATO democracies. Who are we to point fingers at Assad?
Why would the USA/NATO invest more money in a lost cause in Ukraine if not to weaken and "eliminate" Russia? Ukraine has nothing to do with it other than provide cannon fodder.
Hopeful people are trying very hard to spin absolute defeats as strategic withdrawal and I’m not buying it. Letting loose executioners across Syria to end it as a society spares Syria from nothing, in fact it ENDS Syria.
Israel is over extending itself and could be implicated in some charges…
"Israel" itself is an "overextension"!
LOL
Israel has provided no indication why it attacked this particular home.
A variation of Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. If no one asks why Israel kills, Israel doesn't have to answer why Israel kills.
People did not expect anything else from criminals like Netanyahu and the pack of Washington war criminals.