While Israel has launched hundreds of attacks on Lebanese territory since the “ceasefire” went into effect in November, they had so far only done flights over the capital city of Beirut. Today, however, they started attacking the capital again.
Moments before the attacks started, IDF spokesman Avichat Adraee issued a statement in Arabic on Twitter informing the area of imminent attack and ordering civilians to withdraw from at least 300 meters around the target, which was displayed in a satellite image along with its name.
The area is smack dab in a residential neighborhood in the suburbs south of Beirut, and the target is actually a private school, kindergarten through 12th grade, called the Lycée Des Arts, and neighboring buildings.
The website for the lycée (French for school) is in English and shows what looks like a very ordinary, very nice school with students participating in activities that would be very normal for such a place. Kindergartens are shown finger painting and the high school seniors had a bake sale in October to raise money for breast cancer.
Lebanon’s Education Ministry responded by closing all public and private schools in the district for the day in recognition of the threat. They told teachers, staff and students to stay away. So why is this school suddenly and specifically in Israel’s cross-hairs?
As usual, Israel is using Hezbollah as an excuse. A subsequent Tweet from Adraee declared the target, which had explicitly been identified as Lycée Des Arts in the first Tweet, as “Hezbollah infrastructure” used for storing drones.
Israel offered no evidence that this literal school was full of attack drones, or indeed had anything to do with Hezbollah. The school’s website, perhaps needless to say, doesn’t show any drone either, just finger painting and such.
French President Emmanuel Macron was one of the first to denounce the attacks, both as a violation of the ceasefire and “unacceptable.” Macron indicated he intended to take the issue up with US President Trump, as the US and France were meant to be the guarantors of the ceasefire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated this wasn’t just a one-off incident, vowing to continue strikes “everywhere in Lebanon” after today’s attacks on the school. He too presented this as about Hezbollah, and tied it to rocket fire from a week ago along the southern border.
Israel’s narrative presents this rocket fire as a Hezbollah attack, though Hezbollah has denied involvement. Six rockets were fired, of which three crossed the border, all intercepted, so no damage was actually caused. Lebanon’s Army found the “primitive rocket launchers” used in the attack and destroyed them a few hours later. This is unlikely to be Hezbollah as well, given that they have more advanced launch systems that they would commonly use. No group has claimed credit.
The amount of damage in the attack on the Lycée Des Artes is unclear at this time, though images of black smoke rising in the neighborhood suggest it may be substantial. Casualty numbers are also not available, and given the order to evacuate was just a few minutes before the attack, many people may not have seen it or had time to leave.
Israel has also carried out multiple strikes in southern Lebanon on Friday, with an attack on Kfar Tebnit, in Nabatieh Governorate, killing one civilian and wounding eight others. Three children were reported to have been wounded in this strike, and it’s totally unclear what the intended target even was.
'Qatargate': Explaining the Scandal That Has Netanyahu Panicked
Like the Watergate affair that brought down
President Richard Nixon, the details of the latest scandal to rock the Israeli Prime Minister's Office and the whole of the Israeli political sphere have emerged gradually over the past six months.
Mounting evidence shows that close aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have, unbeknownst to the Israeli public, been working directly or indirectly for Qatar, the country that funded Hamas as it was planning the murderous rampage of October 7.
….Netanyahu's desire to disrupt law enforcement's investigation into Qatargate has been frequently cited as a reason for his recent intensive efforts to fire both Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and Shin Bet Head Ronen Bar.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/podcasts/2025-03-28/ty-article-podcast/qatargate-explaining-the-scandal-that-has-netanyahu-panicked/00000195-d873-d93e-a3df-f9fb3d560000
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Opposition figures have accused Netanyahu of seeking to stymie the Qatar investigation and to offload onto Bar the premier’s own failures surrounding the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023. Bar himself accused the government of ousting him to thwart Shin Bet investigations, while Netanyahu has slammed the investigations against his staffers as a “witch hunt,” and the aides have denied wrongdoing.
Netanyahu’s top aide Jonatan Urich, and the premier’s former military spokesman Eli Feldstein, have been questioned in the Qatar case on suspicion of contacting a foreign agent, fraud, money laundering, and bribery.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-seek-to-question-ex-netanyahu-aide-living-in-serbia-in-qatargate-case/
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Dude: graphic warning.
None of this is white washed, nor should it be for if it was we would not be so appalled,eh?
I don’t think there is anyone here who hasn’t seen the horrors. It’s just a courtesy for people to know what it is.
It is a reminder that the horror has not stopped. They keep it up.
Yes. But you don’t need to blindside people who have seen thousands of those photos, was my point.
Wars can’t take the visuals anymore, as one example.
Some people get off on what I call genocide porn.
I don’t think that was the effort here. There are people who need to see the shocking results of the empire’s handiwork, but those are the people who avoid it.
Thanks man.
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I can never forget that baby picture.
Right. It's hard enough to sleep at night.
The biblical commandment is to completely destroy all of Amalek. And when I'm talking about completely destroy, we're talking about killing each and every one of them – including babies, including their property, including the animals – everything.
The world has been so bad to Jews so long and in so many ways, apparently the Israeli ones feel we all deserve to suffer worse. It is too bad that, like Saudi Arabia, they are actually a theocratic state… Which acts in atheistically & amoral ways.
American presidents do not commit war crimes.
They make the world safe for democracy and freedom.
Is that what you really believe, which is possible, or is it satire?
Satire dont worry
The fun part is making it hard to tell
Trump doesn’t care as much about such things. That’s more Dubya and somewhat Biden.
bibi is a psycho https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/03f7747adf3c1a986a48e6dcdb91fceb9a2a9ebf4df5267f47c87f7551c52039.jpg mf
from State–
The United States is Lebanon’s primary security partner and has provided more than $2.5 billion in bilateral security assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) since 2006. U.S. assistance supports the LAF’s ability to secure Lebanon’s borders, counter internal threats, and demonstrate it is the sole legitimate defender of Lebanon’s sovereignty.
Kissinger: "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."
“French President Emmanuel Macron was one of the first to denounce the attacks, both as a violation of the ceasefire and “unacceptable.” Macron indicated he intended to take the issue up with US President Trump, as the US and France were meant to be the guarantors of the ceasefire.”
Complicit lackeys. Small, barbaric people pretending to be civilizationally superior to people of the Levant. If you wish to do something, Mr. Macron, how about cutting off all military aid and cooperation with the Apartheid regime committing genocide? Tell the Israeli ambassador to leave.
Moral monsters.
The Israelis claim to follow the rules if they warn minutes before they attack, making sure people have no time to leave the buildings if they even receive the warning.
I would point out that Macron and Starmer have had nothing useful to say about the imperial monster's declared intention to gobble up the territory of a European country.
And yet CNN just reported "both sides say they remain committed to the ceasefire.". War might actually be better if this is what they call notwar.
The Trump and Netanyahu gangs are the biggest danger on the planet earth. They are mad dogs and getting worse by the day. Nauseating people.
Don't forget that no matter which party has the power, the military/industrial complex has an umbilical cord to both DC and Tel Aviv. According to urban legend now, it was God that made Trump turn his head, so a bullet barely missed entering his skull and killing him, and he was able to "save America". Is it also God that allowed him to give Nutty Yahoo the keys to the human grinding machine?
Not to forget, the Europeans too have a powerful MIC. ( I still believe the bullet was staged campaigning, it was too sloppy )
And no one seems to be able to stop them – and they know it. Hardly anyone is taking the empty outrage from the Democrats seriously any more. They were all OK with bombings and shipping weapons during Biden/Harris.
They are just mad that they cannot be strutting around like peacocks any more, the Republicans are doing that now.
The people may eventually hold them accountable and it could be violent and bloody.
The Netanyoyo is a bloody fascist!….
War Crimes yet?!…!…!………………………………
In the wild there are rabid animals and there are also parasites. Among humans there manage to be people who are both at once.
Make no mistake. When B. Netanyahu vows to bomb Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen or Iran, it has all been already decided in Washington DC.
Netanyahu and Trump are two zionists joined at the hips. Trump's warmongering Neocon advisers and Israeli warmongers are all part of the same cohort. They do not respect any international law, convention or treaty. Permanent war is their goal.
Add the Dems to that list.
It ought to be quite obvious to everyone now, 85-99% of the world's leaders are actual sociopaths…
Surely not I say! Go higher on those numbers and we can agree. .
Well, I was trying to be optimistic…
For every act of war, there is a response. Bibi is a loose cannon but fuses sometimes fizzle out…
As usual, Israel is using Hezbollah as an excuse. A subsequent Tweet from Adraee declared the target, which had explicitly been identified as Lycée Des Arts in the first Tweet, as “Hezbollah infrastructure” used for storing drones.
Another example as to why it's so hard to believe their claim of intelligence failures as the reason Hamas was able to carry out such a large scale "surprise" attack. They know where drones are stored in Beirut but they didn't have a clue about the Hamas attack despite warnings. Sure, why not.
IDF announced that civilians to withdraw from at least 300 meters around the target, which was displayed in a satellite image along with its name? I like how they pretend they still care for the safety of civilians.