Lebanon was invaded by Israel in early October of 2024. As this is written, only a few areas close to the border have been captured by the IDF after apparently taking heavy losses. All indications are that this will not be an ordinary military campaign, and it certainly won't be "limited" as the IDF has publicly stated. What is about to happen in Lebanon is a genocide.
Naftali Bennett, Danial Hagari and Benjamin Netanyahu have all made statements that could only indicate a massacre is being planned for Lebanon. The IDF has issued warnings to Lebanese civilians to evacuate dozens of towns on the South and relocate North. If Gaza is any indication, this will become a buffer zone and these civilians will never return to their homes should they leave. However, if they stay they risk indiscriminate shelling.
The IDF spokeman, Daniel Hagari, presented an animation showing rockets in many building and homes in Lebanon. This cartoonish image of Hezbollah's rocket stockpile is meant to justify the coming attacks on civil infrastructure. The IDF showed similar animations of Shifa hospital in Gaza in late 2023 of extensive tunnels and underground bases. These tunnels and bases did not exist, but Shifa hospital was burned to the ground by the IDF anyway.
Naftali Bennett, the former prime minister made an outrageous statement about Lebanese Shia civilians via Twitter (X). He stated that Shias are paid by Hezbollah to store rockets in their homes and fire them on command. There is no evidence for this. This statement is meant to demonize a religious group and justify the coming wave of atrocities.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the current blood-soaked prime minister, said that if the Lebanese did not cast Hezbollah out Lebanon would become another Gaza. This is a not so thinly vailed threat and an admission that their campaign in Gaza has been barbaric. He wants to instill fear into the Lebanese population and start a sectarian civil war between Shias and other groups.
These statements will be taken at face value by IDF soldiers on the ground, as we have seen in Gaza. Already, IDF soldiers are razing homes and buildings with explosive charges in Lebanon. Should they capture Southern Lebanon, they will render it an uninhabitable wasteland. The Israeli air force is currently conducting what can on be called terror raids on Beirut and its suburbs. Their primary target is the Shia dominated suburb of Dahiya.
This is a warning to the world. Israel is a mad dog with no checks and balances in place. It seems futile to write this, as we know the outcome. It is a forgone conclusion. Israel will target primarily Shias in Lebanon and their civilian infrastructure with the goal of displacing them. American weapons will continue to flow. This will become possibly the first time a state has engaged in two concurrent genocides. The Palestinians in Gaza and the Shias of Lebanon.
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