As of 23 October, it had been one month since Israel announced the expansion of its aggression on Lebanon as part of what it called “Operation Arrows of the North.”
The operation’s stated goals, according to Israel, are to destroy the capabilities of the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, to secure Israel’s northern border, and to ensure a safe return of Israeli settlers to the north.
The systematic targeting of civilians across Lebanon, however, may also be an indicator that Israel is interested in the ethnic cleansing of the people of the region.
Its aggression was not limited to just southern Lebanon but also extended to the capital Beirut and other parts of the country.
Israeli warplanes have even targeted areas close to Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport and the Al-Masnaa border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, along with hospitals and aid distribution centres.
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Israel has once again proven that it enjoys impunity, which allows it to kill innocent people in a wholesale manner, displace them, widely destroy civil infrastructure, and target humanitarian workers and medics in full view of the world.
This brazen status has made many question if there is any line that Israel can’t cross. As Lebanese-American journalist Rania Khalek wrote, “So the world is going to sit by and let the settler psycho state of Israel tantrum bomb our beautiful ancient coastal city of Tyre/Sur so they can make south Lebanon unliveable? And then what? Where does this lead?” – Peoples Dispatch/Globetrotter News Service
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