IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return.
Both are war crimes punishable under international law.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
A ceasefire is meaningless while Israel pursues 2 parallel operations: expanding its territorial hold through bombardment, & systematically demolishing border villages. A deal that doesn't address both tracks is a partial pause, not a foundation for anything, certainly not worth free concessions
وقف النار لا يعني شيئاً إذا كان الاحتلال مستمراً في عملية تدمير قرى الحدود. العمليات الاسرائيلية حالياً شقان، الأول على ارتباط بتوسيع رقعة الاحتلال والقصف ضد أهداف عسكرية ومدنية، والثانية تدمير قرى سيطر عليها. أي وقف للنار لا يأخذ طبيعة هذه العمليات في الاعتبار، هو وقف جزئي لا يستحق تنازلات مجانية
Worth reflecting on how fast public discourse on this has changed. When we published “The One State Reality” in @foreignaffairs.com in 2023, three influential participants in a forum the next issue called as antisemites (in kinda embarrassing and lazy pieces).
The rising toll of civilians owes a lot to the nature of Israeli objectives which combine ethnic cleansing and collective punishment against hundreds of towns and villages across south Lebanon
Great achievement. The US should focus more on leading human innovation and exploration
There was a similar incident recently in which the child was allegedly beaten to extract information from his father.
In the past day, Israel claimed its targets in the Beirut massacre were valuable Hezbollah cadres. No names I have seen confirm this. More innocent civilians than anything else. This is an atrocity designed to derail the Iran-IS agreement, detach Lebanon’s ceasefire as a standalone one
Beirut hasn’t seen much violence in a single day since the August four blast in 2020
Ethnic cleansing “gifts”
Vicious and no other word to describe this
Lebanon’s Coming Collapse
An Israeli Assault Is Pushing the Fragile Country to the Brink
Maha Yahya
www.foreignaffairs.com/lebanon/leba...
You can destroy towns and villages, ethnically cleanse them, but the risk on our soldiers should be reasonable.
The slow advance is not only about Hezbollah attacks, as the IDF is now focused on destroying these villages, blowing up homes, mosques and churches. This ethnic cleansing operation takes time too
I disagree that the IDF is still stuck in Taybeh, even Hezbollah is reporting attacks on ground troops way beyond that. They’ve taken Deir Seryan, blew homes and infrastructure there and they’ve controlled Qantara, now entered the outskirts of Ghandouriye.
This seems to be a new policy, goes hand in hand with execution of prisoners. Israel at some point will internalize this violence and practice it against its own citizens.
A simple sentence that pretty much encapsulates this admin’s policy on all fronts
Lebanese fear another occupation as Israel threatens to use Gaza tactics in the south
@apnews.com
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More than half of nearly 250 documented strikes hit residential or agricultural land. The pattern points to a deliberate strategy: scorch the land, push people out, establish a buffer zone.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
A major development in Lebanon. Of course this goes against the grain of Israeli claims about the Lebanese government’s lack of action against the militant group and its sponsor
Smotrich openly calls for annexing Lebanese territory to the Litani river & creating "sterile security strips", ethnic cleansing dressed up in technocratic language. This is not a fringe position. It is Israeli government policy, stated plainly, with zero consequence.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
“By fully joining a partner that is reconciled to endless fighting, the U.S. has given up its most valuable role in ME: the outside power with a wide array of econ & diplo tools that Isr needs precisely bec it stands apart.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...
#nieuwsuur goede rapportage, de moeite waard om te kijken.
Hezbollah's political future will be shaped less by the battlefield and more by whether it can claim the ceasefire, and compensate its community for the destruction. My comment in the latest @ISPI piece on Lebanon
www.ispionline.it/en/publicati...
How will these attacks shape the EU response to the conflict?
Lebanon’s health ministry: over 1,000 dead in less than three weeks. Hezbollah has killed 2 Israeli soldiers. That’s a 1:500 kill ratio. I’ve never seen anything like it, worse even than the 1982 invasion.
very much so, and we have to look farther than Iran to see how this war impacts the region. I mean we have to look at Algeria, Egypt, KSA and Turkey. Nuclear proliferation is a more serious threat than any ballistic missiles Iran can launch.
"Washington has not yet reckoned with the world made by its war on Iran, one in which the bomb looks more attractive than ever and would-be nuclear states understand the urgency of developing a weapon in secret."
استهداف ايران الدول المجاورة ليس غريباً عن سياساتها القائمة على محاولة الهيمنة. الغريب الذي يستدعي كثيراً من الأسئلة في منطقتنا هو أن الحماية الأميركية المفترضة نتيجة اتفاقات وقواعد في دول الخليج، أتت بنتائج معاكسة. الولايات المتحدة عبء أمني وليست ضمانة لأحد، هذا الاستنتاج الذي نسمعه اليوم في الخليج