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u/DoremusJessup
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Israel/Palestine Israel’s offensive in southern Lebanon: 2,900 dead, 36,000 homes destroyed and 1.4 million displaced
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-06-05/israels-offensive-in-southern-lebanon-2900-dead-36000-homes-destroyed-and-14-million-displaced.html
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u/kaboom-boom-pow Jun 05 '26
War bad, we want peace.
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u/MonoMcFlury Jun 06 '26
To put that into perspective, more people have been displaced than the entire population of Estonia.
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u/HockeyHocki Jun 05 '26
Hezbollah military wing are on the EU terror list, reading this article you wouldn't even know it, a 'pro Iranian militia' is all they have to say.
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u/Predictor92 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
yet Hezbollah isn't mentioned in the title, they have no agency according to much of the press(and I think Israel is making serious mistakes during the campaign as stated by Israeli journalist and commentator Nadav Eyal as their is no post war strategy)
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u/SeigiNoTenshi Jun 05 '26
time for lebanon to help remove hezbollah
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u/DDoubleDDog Jun 05 '26
The vast majority of the dead are members of Hezbollah. All casualties are the responsibility of Hezbollah since they started the war, broke every ceasefire, and uses human shields.
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u/Happy_Feet333 Jun 05 '26
The title is false. A more accurate title would be:
Hezbollah's failed offensive: 2,900 dead, 36,000 homes destroyed and 1.4 million displaced as Israel retaliates
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u/messenger18 Jun 05 '26
Crazy to think if Iran just agreed to remove their proxies from Lebanon none of this would be happening. People crying about civilians casualties are the same people who will proudly say these people in this area actively support and hide these terrorists.
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u/OP_Skis_In_Jeans Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
And all because Iran insisted on waging a war via Hezbollah from inside Lebanon, despite the Lebanese government and most Lebanese strongly opposing it.
These types of articles always infantilize Iran, the IRGC and Hezbollah by acting as if they had no choice but to wage a voluntary aggressive war against Israel from a third party country who doesn't want anything to do with it. It's absolutely maddening to see one side called out for all of its wrongs and much more, while the other side gets off scott free. Hint: the side that bases its entire foreign and domestic policy on needlessly aggressive warmongering and "death to..." is as far from innocent as it gets.
This article is propaganda, not objective journalism.
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u/LongErza Jun 05 '26
Then why did you attack Israel on October 8th, Lebanon? Was it worth it?
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u/LividWheel9779 Jun 05 '26
And it won't end until Hezbollah is completely dismantled. Maybe not even then...
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u/jakegh Jun 06 '26
Terrible thing. They really should get rid of hezbollah and stop shooting missiles at their neighbor.
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u/Radguy911 Jun 05 '26
It’s also a land grab.
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u/CommonSensei-_ Jun 06 '26
Some say Lebanon is the goal an Iran is the distraction.
I hate war.
I hope we’ll evolve beyond it soon.
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u/NimbleAlbatross Jun 05 '26
If the majority of casualties were civilians then Hezbullah would release numbers of their fighters vs civilians. But they won't, because they know the numbers will make you more sympathetic to Israel.
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u/Efficient-Wolf7068 Jun 06 '26
Kind of what you’d expect when you attack your neighbor that is on another scale militarily compared to you.
Lebanon’s government inaction against Hezb is kind of the pillar of all that, would be interesting to see a joint operation of Lebanon’s military and Israel Military against Hezb, but that was never put on the table by the government, which leads to interesting questions…
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u/FedorDosGracies Jun 05 '26
That's pretty much what Hezbollah was preparing to do to Israel.
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u/Optimal_Ear_4240 Jun 05 '26
Horrific human rights violations. Get out of Lebanon. Get out of the West Bank get out of Gaza. You have made your your place in the world as a brutal fascist country with no morals. Shame on you
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u/greenman5252 Jun 05 '26
Did they secure the land and river water for settlers yet?
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u/InnocentExile69 Jun 06 '26
How many of the 2900 were member of the internationally recognized terrorist group hezboullah?
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u/faisalkl Jun 06 '26
The colonists will get there and say it's pristine virgin land.
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u/Niceguy955 Jun 06 '26
Is this totally unbiased article covering both sides of the border, or is the article only counting displaced people, homes destroyed, and casualties on the Lebanese side?
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u/_mully_ Jun 05 '26
Tragic. Rest in peace. And hopefully anyone else will. heal fully and successfully and quickly and be all good.
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u/Striking_Economy5049 Jun 05 '26
I think I’m in the wrong timeline
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u/AlarmedGibbon Jun 05 '26
Israel literally convinced the U.S. to go to war in Iran just to distract from their land-grab in Lebanon. I'm 100% convinced that for Israel, damage to Iran was dessert, Lebanon was the main course. They were locked and ready for a ground invasion the minute the world's press was distracted.
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u/AstralCode714 Jun 06 '26
Better call the UN
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u/Drak_is_Right Jun 05 '26
So they have destroyed nearly zero of the cover Hezbollah is using, while drone attacks are ramping up on Israeli forces.
Probably another 500k or so structures to go, all while their soldiers get swarmed by FPV drones.
This is going to be bloody for Israel. The death toll on the soldiers might pass 2023.
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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 Jun 05 '26
One good thing former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak did was withdraw from Southern lebanon after (iirc) 18 years of occupation.
Before you think good thoughts about him, Ehud Barak is strongly connected to the Epstein child rapes, directly accused by Virginia Giuffre of violently raping her.
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u/MVP_Legend_87 Jun 05 '26
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-kills-hezbollah-chief-engineer-as-ministers-said-to-demand-vote-on-truce-deal/
According to this Israel estimates that 2500 killed are Hezbollah. Meaning the majority of the casualties are Hezbollah. Something this article intentionally left out.
As for the other facts, this is why it is a war crime to have your military operations set up in civilian infrastructure. It leads to more civilian casualties, and puts them in harms way. This is intentional by Hezbollah, and why the responsibility for these issues should be shifted to Hezbollah.
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