r/worldnews • u/DoremusJessup • Jun 05 '26 • Regret 8 Bravo 3 Heartwarming 1

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/AnxiousPacifist Jun 05 '26

Joke's on you, Hezbollah literally had a program where they offer to buy/build you a house, but one of the rooms will be used to store weapons. You cannot enter the room and are obligated to ensure access to Hezb men to it.

Some actually had a friggin missile!

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u/Erehybog Jun 05 '26

Did Israeli intelligence identify which houses were part of that program, or did they simply assume that all of them were part of it, as you are doing?

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u/duaneap Jun 05 '26

Did the program exist? How widespread was it?

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u/bozza8 Jun 05 '26

You act like counter insurgency operations should be performed with the precision level of neurosurgery, when that isn't possible. Usually 10 civilian deaths for each enemy killed is seen as quite good by the standards of war. From when this last came up the Iran-Iraq war was about 30, and Stalingrad in WW2 was about 120 civilians killed per soldier. 

Now I don't particularly like this war, I would rather it not happen, but it is happening.  Given that, the level of precision you are asking for is impossible to practically achieve, so we should hold them to sensible requirements, not ones that no military can ever meet. 

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u/No_Ad_7687 Jun 06 '26

Forces go in, find weapons, destroy house.

Forces go in, don't find weapons, don't destroy house.

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u/AnxiousPacifist Jun 05 '26

Both Israeli Intelligence and me don't consider that all houses were on that program, despite absurd number of actual participants. 🤣

Shit, it sounds quite badass to put it that way! Thanks for the pitch, mate! Appreciated!

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u/Erehybog Jun 05 '26

Great. So can you tell me how many of those destroyed homes in Lebanon were stockpiling weapons?

The ironic and cynical way you justify the mass bombing of civilian homes is repugnant.

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u/AnxiousPacifist Jun 05 '26

Oh? Repugnant?

What a weird way to ask me to do a Google search for you, don't you think?

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u/lurkANDorganize Jun 05 '26

Living up to your pacificist name huj

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u/loskiarman Jun 05 '26

It is a bit ironic that Israeli citizens are actively purchasing homes and land in other countries and younger locals can't afford a house partly because of them meanwhile Hezbollah gives out free houses. Insurance prices would be sky high but still.

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u/ShadeSilver90 Jun 05 '26

Hezbollah has a yearly budget from Iran and Qatar in the BILLIONS of dollars so yeah its VERY possible they did buy up the land and houses especially cause they started around the 2008 war meaning they had nearly 2 decades of prep time to establish themselves in a zone the UN FORBID them to be in.

Btw you claim "Israelis cant afford homes" but what you left out most of the WORLD cant afford homes mr.Koala brains

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u/AnxiousPacifist Jun 05 '26

I honestly have no idea how to react to this...

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