The Israeli military has begun giving southern Lebanon the Gaza treatment. Some 25% of Lebanese are under “evacuation orders,” which is to say that Israel is expelling them from their homes in preparation for further military operations against the Hezbollah Party-Militia.
The U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, Imran Riza, said <https://reliefweb.int/report/lebanon/statement-humanitarian-coordinator-lebanon-imran-riza-call-protect-civilians-and-civilian-infrastructure-amid-escalating-strikes-16-october-2024-enar> Wednesday, “Health care facilities, mosques, historical markets, residential complexes, and now government buildings are being reduced to rubble. Displaced families continue to feel at risk, even after fleeing to safe areas.” Lebanon is a small country of perhaps 4 million citizens and nearly 2 million refugees. The UN says <https://reliefweb.int/report/lebanon/international-rescue-committee-emergency-situation-report-lebanon-response-16-october-2024> that some 1.2 million people have been displaced, with 275,000 people leaving for Syria. This latter number includes both Lebanese leaving their own country and Syrian refugees in Lebanon returning to the Baathist dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. The equivalent of such a vast displacement of residents in the United States would be 51 million internal refugees. It is unimaginable. We saw this movie in Gaza. It is total war. https://www.juancole.com/2024/10/gazafication-lebanon-nabatieh.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32934): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32934 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109063153/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
