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Lebanese Fear Another Occupation as Israel Threatens to Use Gaza Tactics There
Israel has displaced over 1 million people and bombed seven bridges to cut Hezbollah supply lines while aiming to establish a long-term security zone in the south, officials said.
- Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Tuesday that Israel has launched a limited ground operation in southern Lebanon to create a "security zone" up to the Litani River, 30 kilometers from the border.
- Israeli leaders justified the operation as necessary to shield northern communities from daily rocket attacks by Hezbollah, citing the Gaza campaign model that destroyed homes in Beit Hanoun and Rafah to neutralize threats.
- Kandice Ardel, spokesperson for the U.N. mission known as UNIFIL, reported that Israeli troops and engineering assets are operating near U.N. positions, amid air raids killing more than 1,000 people and displacing over a million.
- Seven bridges over the Litani have been bombed to restrict movement, while Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's far-right finance minister, declared the war must end with "fundamental change"—the river becoming the "new border with the state of Lebanon."
- Many in Lebanon fear the strategy signals an open-ended occupation and territorial loss, as Mohanad Hage Ali, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East think tank in Beirut, observed that Israel has already established "different shades" of control.
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The war in South Lebanon is showing increasing similarities to the one in Gaza. Israel is intensifying the attacks and more than a million people are on the run.
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Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned of the “risk of annexation” faced by Israel in the south of his country, during a telephone conversation he had this Thursday with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. In this conversation, the Chief Executive referred to the “repeated threats of Israeli officials to occupy and potentially annex the area south of Litani,” further denouncing that Israel destroyed “the majority” of the brid…
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Total News Sources35
Leaning Left14Leaning Right6Center8Last UpdatedBias Distribution50% Left
Bias Distribution
- 50% of the sources lean Left
50% Left
L 50%
C 29%
R 21%
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