Israel's military deployed around 100 fighter jets to launch a massive bombing campaign in southern Lebanon on Sunday, endangering tens of thousands of civilians and heightening the chances of an all-out regional war.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) characterized the wave of airstrikes as an effort to preemptively "remove the threat" posed by a purportedly imminent Hezbollah attack, but observers argued the Israeli bombing marked a serious escalation that could further undermine hopes of a cease-fire deal in Gaza.

"Looks like Israel is now escalating in Lebanon in a major way in the hopes of kicking off a major war in the north that has thus far been kept to more limited exchanges," wrote political analyst Yousef Munayyer. "Just as negotiations for a cease-fire were reportedly advancing."

  • istanbullu@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Israel has been bombing Lebanon for decades. Israel's policy is to kill every non-Jew in the world.

      • istanbullu@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        These fanatics believe that anyone who is not a Jew is a lesser being deserving of death and slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goy

        all religions are bad.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          3 months ago

          Isreal sterilizes Ethiopian jews dude, they're not really Jewish supremacists they're just boring old white supremacists in a coat of religious paint, which is why they get along so well with American evangelicals

        • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 months ago

          Israel has no regard for the lives of Jewish Palestinians and loves to recruit Christians to the cause of Zionism. Go back to Reddit.