With near daily airstrikes against Lebanon and thousands of Israeli ceasefire violations documented since the ceasefire went into effect, there is growing pressure on the ceasefire monitoring committee to actually chime in on the matter.
The ceasefire monitors, which are led by the United States and France, will meet on Thursday to discuss the ongoing violations, which include airstrikes and on-again, off-again ground invasions of southern Lebanon.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun started agitating for the ceasefire committee to do something after a weekend attack on the capital city of Beirut. Since then Hezbollah has also been pressing the Lebanese government to do something about the matter.
French officials have at times criticized Israel’s violation, but so far no actions have been taken by the ceasefire committee, and US officials have tended to praise Israel irrespective of the attacks, making any committee action an uphill battle, despite the flagrant and massive number of such violations.
The Israeli military reported that they carried out over 50 attacks against Lebanon in the past month. This included strikes on workers clearing southern farmland for the planting season, and multiple different incidents where civilians were reported killed.
Unsurprisingly, Israel’s official take was that every single attack was against a “terror target.” This is in keeping with a narrative where deadly strikes, to the extent Israel comments on them at all, are always presented as at least hitting a “Hezbollah operative,” and often a high-ranking leader, even if the evidence points to them being a civilian.
Adding to the international furore against the strikes, Human Rights Watch issued a report last week criticizing Israel for indiscriminate attacks on the civilian population of Lebanon. This is likely to further add to the pressure for the ceasefire committee to not simply delay their reaction as they have for the last several months.
It will be likely that another matter coming up during the meeting is the requirement for the Lebanese Army to deploy across southern Lebanon. They haven’t completed such deployments yet, though Lebanese officials have said that is because the active Israeli attacks and occupation of parts of the south have made some areas unsafe to send troops to.
They need a smoke- screen to cover the ceasefire monitor smoke-screen.
The MONITORS are led by the USA and France, what an insult to the victims and all of us, our governments are making us complicit in unbelievable war crimes.
The league of the ruling criminal trans-Atlantic monster elite is imploding, nihilating modern advanced democracies, the kind they claim stands for human rights.
It is the West that has come the furtherest in human rights, religious rights, gay rights, women's rights, minority rights, etc. —I hope you are not looking at the abysmal record of the Islamic world on these issues, to include the right of a free press, freedom of speech and expression.
Well, there is something like reality, the West is no better than eastern cultures, which are much older civilized cultured societies. Islam is a religion which is rooted in their cultures. May I remind you, Christianity has a very bloody history. Does the Inquisition tell you something?
” free press, freedom of speech and expression” LOL
That is very sophisticated propaganda, and our democracies are 1st class as far as that is concerned. The USA was very slow in ending slavery, and there is the genocide of the American Indians, do you know about that? Glorified history, grade school level.
Yes I know about man's inhumanity to man throughout world history. Tribalism, sectarianism, nationalism, classism, racism, and sexism are universal human conditions, and some cultures have evolved to deal with them better than others.
You bring up Christianity having a bloody history, which is why most progressive Countries have separation of Church and State.
You just tried to dismiss what I said and what is factually indisputable.
I repeat– It is the West that has come the furtherest in human rights, religious rights, gay rights, women's rights, minority rights, etc, to include the right of a free press, freedom of speech and expression.
Where have you chosen to live and raise your family?
This is what happens when a pro US government takes over the Lebanon…!
Sadly, the headline made me laugh. Why do I think nothing will be done?
Me tool Those guys should take over SNL.
If the Israelis want to hit terrorist targets, why don't they call air strikes against their own positions?