An Israeli tank at the Lebanese border
Hicham Safieddine – Middle East Eye Oct 10, 2025
Last autumn, Israel launched a brutal and bloody war on Lebanon, with devastating consequences. After fighting broke out on 8 October 2023, and up until a cessation-of-hostilities agreement was signed on 27 November 2024, Israeli attacks killed more than 4,000 people, including more than 300 children, and injured nearly 17,000.
Following Israel’s full-scale escalation in September 2024, more than one million people were displaced. Israel’s terror tactics ranged from the indiscriminate detonation of hand-held pagers in public spaces, to aerial carpet bombing of residential neighbourhoods, to wholesale assassinations of Hezbollah’s top political and military brass, to a ground invasion that left a trail of death and destruction.
Since the ceasefire agreement, Israel’s war has continued by other means. Despite Hezbollah’s cessation of all military operations, Israeli drone surveillance and attacks, as well as occasional artillery shelling and air raids, are a near-daily occurrence.
Israeli forces still occupy several hilltops inside Lebanese territory that straddle the entire width of the border. Expansion and fortification of these bases are underway.
Media coverage and political analysis of the postwar period have largely centred on one of Israel’s declared goals: the disarming of Hezbollah. In Lebanon, political forces allied with the US and Gulf states within Washington’s orbit have turned this demand into their do-or-die mandate.
Championed by the vociferous prime minister, Nawaf Salam, and a more calculating president, Joseph Aoun, the disarming of Hezbollah is framed as an indispensable step to restore Lebanese sovereignty – and a prerequisite for any economic recovery, including much-needed postwar reconstruction.
Domestic haggling over the fate of Hezbollah’s arms in relation to state sovereignty overshadows the long-term and regional dimensions of Israel’s war on Lebanon in a post-7-October reality. Israel’s pursuit of unchecked regional military supremacy – and its corollary, the establishment of Greater Israel – has meant a new reality in southern Lebanon which, if unchecked, may amount to ethnic cleansing.
Current facts on the ground point in that direction, and are in line with longstanding Zionist colonial ambitions and policies dating back more than a century.
Depopulating villages
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Recent reports by international humanitarian groups and human rights agencies have exposed the extent of the systematic and wanton destruction that Israel’s military has inflicted on southern Lebanon’s frontier region since last year’s escalation began. The reports point to worrying trends of forced displacement and dispossession, which are hard to justify from a purely military point of view.
IDF badge says “Israel’s Promised Land”. Click to enlarge
According to Doctors Without Borders, frequent Israeli attacks since the November agreement have prevented the return of more than 82,000 displaced residents.
Many of the hospitals and primary care facilities that were damaged by Israeli attacks during the war remain closed, and some require rehabilitation. At least 57 people have been killed while trying to return to their homes. Israel has officially declared that anyone who moves south of a line roughly parallel to the border, running between three and 11 kilometres deep, “puts himself in danger”.
Satellite imagery and media footage analysed by Amnesty International reveals that between 1 October 2024 and 26 January 2025, Israel destroyed more than 10,000 structures, including places of worship, agricultural land and even a football field. In several municipalities, the damage was near-total, affecting 70 percent of all structures.
Most of these sites were attacked after, not before, the end of active combat, with manually laid explosives and bulldozers.
Amnesty found no evidence of the presence of Hezbollah fighters at the time of detonation. Instead, video evidence shows Israelis revelling in the destruction, and reciting hateful slogans like “may your village burn”. This behaviour is similar to footage that has emerged from Gaza, and is often associated with genocidal intent or desires of ethnic cleansing.
Fears of the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon are not merely founded on present realities and future risks, but on past legacies, including the tragic story of the “seven lost villages”.
In 1923, the Anglo-French agreement that demarcated the borders between the newly created Greater Lebanon and Mandatory Palestine reassigned seven villages that were originally considered Lebanese to the British mandate. For centuries, these villages, like others straddling modern-day southern Lebanon and occupied northern Palestine, had existed as part of an undivided Ottoman realm.
In 1948, the seven villages shared the fate of other Palestinian villages: they were ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias, their names replaced by those of Jewish settlements, and most of their inhabitants expelled into Lebanon. Many of the survivors and their descendants were deprived of their Lebanese papers and unrecognised as Palestinian refugees. They continue to live in legal limbo.
Colonising southern Lebanon
Zionist ethnic cleansing in the southern Lebanese region of Jabal Amel would have been much more extensive were it not for the imperialist rivalries of the post-World War One period.
For the early Zionists, settling Palestine meant settling the largest possible territory that vaguely overlapped with their biblical vision of the holy land.
Maps presented by the World Zionist Organization to the Paris Conference clearly show that Zionists sought to include in their territory southern Lebanon, including the Litani River and up to the coastal city of Saida – an estimated 60km from the current border.
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Zionists, like all European settlers, were also keen to secure the most fertile land and fresh water sources. Eastern boundaries of the proposed map included large swathes of Syrian and Jordanian territory that fully engulfed Lake Tiberias and the Jordan River. French counter-proposals forced the Zionists to confine their activities after WWI to what is now referred to as historic Palestine.
Initial ambitions to colonise southern Lebanon were shelved but never extinguished. During this latest war, Michael Freund, who previously served as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deputy communications director, claimed that “historically speaking, southern Lebanon is in fact northern Israel”. He cited the Book of Joshua as mentioning “Sidon explicitly as being promised to the Jewish people”. Freund also listed several shrines in the south as Jewish and evidence of the right to the land.
The invocation of religious sites as justification for colonial conquest is an old and debunked Zionist trope. Freund was not alone in reviving it. One of Israel’s pseudo-archaeologists, Zeev Erlich, was embedded in the Israeli army during the recent invasion of Lebanon. Israeli troops burned and destroyed parts of the shrine. Before withdrawing, they demolished the surrounding historic buildings of the village’s old quarter, the very place they claimed as theirs.
Israel has reportedly insisted that several border villages remain depopulated as part of a buffer zone.
Resistance and return
Despite Israel’s scorched-earth policy and the Lebanese government’s complicity in refusing to finance reconstruction in the south, the people of Jabal Amel have shown tremendous determination to resist.
In January 2025, thousands of Lebanese defied Israeli orders not to return to their villages. They marched back and entered their villages, with more than a dozen people killed by Israeli fire. Since then, numerous initiatives have been launched to set up makeshift schools, rebuild village squares and houses of worship, and resuscitate agricultural production.
A return to normalcy, however, is still far off. Without security and the restoration of some military deterrence, the threat of long-term displacement is rising.
Almost one year after Hezbollah’s guns fell silent, the Lebanese army has failed miserably to protect the people of the south. So long as the army is beholden to US influence and funding, it will never be equipped to stand up to Israel.
US envoy Tom Barrack said this much when he dismissed the possibility of providing weapons to the Lebanese armed forces that would enable them to fight Israel.
Washington’s most recent “security assistance package” for Lebanon, valued at a meagre $14m, reflects this policy. Materials listed include demolition charges, detonating cords, time-blasting fuse igniters, and other gadgets clearly designed, as the announcement explicitly states, to “dismantle weapons caches and military infrastructure of non-state groups, including [Hezbollah].”
If the status quo persists, it is likely that armed resistance will resume. Full liberation and peace in the south, however, will remain elusive until the liberation of Palestine. That is a historical reality – and a future certainty.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.
Hicham Safieddine is Canada Research Chair in the History of the Modern Middle East and Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. He is author of Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of Lebanon (SUP, 2019), editor of Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel (Brill, 2020), and co-editor of The Clarion of Syria: A Patriot’s Call against the Civil War of 1860 (CUP, 2019).
Dad beheads son, 13, after boy found photos of him eating faeces from nappies in womens lingerie
Story by Jeremiah Hassel & Tom McGhie •
A Colorado father brutally murdered and decapitated his 13-year-old son after the boy stumbled upon explicit photos of him eating faeces from a nappy while wearing womens lingerie.
Dylan Redwine, was hesitant about spending the Thanksgiving holidays in 2012 with his father, Mark a closet homosexual , but he had no choice. The court had ordered the visit and his mother, Elaine Hall, faced legal repercussions if she didn’t comply. She sent her son on a journey to Durango, Colorado, a quaint city tucked away in the southwestern corner of the state, roughly 217 miles northwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico, . The ill-fated day of November 18, 2012, marked the last time Dylan was seen alive. Mark collected Dylan from the airport, and CCTV footage revealed minimal interaction between them, a trend that persisted during their trip to a nearby Walmart. Cory alleged that Dylan had challenged his father regarding photographs they had discovered the year before, which depicted Mark wearing women’s underwear and apparently consuming faeces from a nappy – pictures that profoundly shocked both lads.
Cory revealed to PEOPLE Magazine that he had urged his brother to tackle their father about the disturbing photographs, telling Dylan that he was “getting old enough to speak his mind” and pushing him to voice his thoughts.
Forensic specialists concluded that Dylan had suffered stab wounds and perished from sharp force trauma. Throughout the trial, they gave evidence that no wildlife would have carried a human skull such a distance from the remaining body parts.
Mark was ultimately found guilty of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death, charges he encountered after the savage killing in 2017. In October 2021, he was handed a 48-year sentence for the murder – the maximum punishment permitted by law, which prosecutors had pushed for.
Cuprophilia or shit eating is fairly common among homosexuals, Prime Minister Edward Heath was an exponent of the art.
Labour could deport foreigners celebrating terror attacks and spouting hatred
Story by Michael Knowles •
Foreign nationals who support terror groups, spout hatred or celebrate atrocities could be deported, Shabana Mahmood revealed.
The Home Secretary hinted she could announce a crackdown on overseas arrivals holding extremist views.
5000 israeli war criminals now hiding in the IK
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2025/08/03/752369/meet-zionist-charity-brought-over-5000-israeli-war-criminals-britain
i was good at maths at school
did you know that 4 out of every 5 jews
are as fat useless smelly bastards
as the other one ?
Bibi Netahyahu has every right to do this
God promised the world to us jews
the middle east and all its oil and mineral wealth belongs to us
Turkey says it will resist, Trump will put the americans in
soon there will be no more Turkey
we have conquered palestine lebanon syrua iraq and soon jordan and egypt
there is no stopping us
we own the USA and UK, you will bow to us
ENGLAND HAS BEEN CLEANSED OF
HAVING REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT,
Labour could deport foreigners celebrating terror attacks and spouting hatred
Story by Michael Knowles •
Foreign nationals who support terror groups, spout hatred or celebrate atrocities could be deported, Shabana Mahmood revealed.
The Home Secretary hinted she could announce a crackdown on overseas arrivals holding extremist views.
5000 israeli war criminals now hiding in the IK
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2025/08/03/752369/meet-zionist-charity-brought-over-5000-israeli-war-criminals-britain
lebanon is just one of the slaughters the jews got everyone to ignore by running their gaza propaganda.
in the jew-k, several months ago, you had some titled whore telling you she was running some investigation into the rape gangs. the result? “the pwoor little coppers were too scared to do anything.” and the rape gangs continue. thirty years and counting.
instead of no-sham peace prizes, let’s have a “good guy” prize. any nominations? does anyone know of any actual bona fide good guys anywhere?
The Arab nations around Israel created the greater Israel by cooperating, after reading the Sabbatean Frankist doctrines, reading the Talmud and not running their own affairs(the caliphates took loans with severe contractual obligations – in this case that of the Ottomans in 1829 for financial bailouts). Their religion is subverted by Freemasonry looking as much as millienialist Christians & Chabbad to an end times they are creating right now spun out of thin air, malleable wet inked prophecies & pure lies.
MORE MIGRANT STABBINGS
Dad ‘too distraught’ to carry surviving son from home as two of his children ‘murdered’
Story by Laura Zilincanova, Rob Andrews • 55m A heartbroken father watched police carry his surviving child to safety after his two other children were tragically stabbed to death at a home in Stafford. Officers from Staffordshire Police were called to the property on Corporation Street at around 7.30am on Sunday.
The two victims, Meraj Ul Zahra, aged two, and three-year-old Abdul Momin Alfaateh, were discovered inside the property with serious injuries and were unresponsive. Despite the efforts of emergency medics, both children were sadly pronounced dead at the scene. A third child, believed to be a boy, was found alive at the scene. Neighbours reported that the father was too “distraught” to carry his child to the police car. Meanwhile, a 43-year-old woman from Stafford, who was arrested on suspicion of the double murder, has now been detained under the Mental Health Act.
please just send them all home
The silly show of liars runs unabated on propaganda program tools, your TV. IsraHELL is the #1 terrorist cabal in the world backed by its lackey the USA. It’s become comical now for any with a conscience and a brain not washed.
Trump could save the US alot of money right now by building a wall and getting the arab neighbors to pay for it…
Well considering the fact that the Trumps are crypto jews….it looks like they’ll get what they want…..a return to the supposed biblical borders……but an awful number of people will be killed.
The fiends are STILL going on about “the hostages”…..meantime the memory of 50,000 ++ Palestinians is rapidly being “lost”.
Actually it doesn’t take a great effort to predict the future!…the Jewish fiends have already publicized their intentions.
Hopefully nobody will take that dreadful old lesbian jewish actress at face value (she played an old crone in Hogwaarts).
She is currently playing BOTH SIDES in the Palestine conflict.(full of lies of course)
jews laugh at us for stopping the only man who would have helped us clear the jewsih problem
adolf hitler
the UK witches covens have puta curse on starmer and nutenyahu
damn good job
The Grand Jewish Dialectic
The same international bankster cartel behind the globalist movement to end nation states, Christianity, the family system, and our basic rights and freedoms is backing Isreal and Jewish expansionism in the Levant and at the same time the dominance of Jewish global ownership – as the EXCDEPTION to the globalist, communist tyranny they are busy imposing on the rest of us,
Isreal and the Jews despite their control of the media are used to “bad press”, and in their brazen ruthlessness could care less about what the outsiders think of them anyway. Did they care that we knew about their ruthlessness in Palestine in taking the place over after WWII? Not a bit.
With Ashkenazi Trump we were deceived into believing he was a populist. Apart from being an arch crook in his own right, and likely an accomplice with Epstein and the Mossad in their blackmail operations for his promotion, we recall that he was also used to advance the Covid Plandemic and to push the globalist-hatched Covid vaccine on us. He fully backs the globalist financial and technocratic controls being usher in, and he is silent on the globalist structures designed to implement the UN Agendas. He and his administration, together with the US deep state, the bankster money power, ensured that his friend and business associate, arch globalist, Mark Carney, became Canada’s Prime Minister in the Canadian “selections” earlier this year. He fully backs the Jewish genocide, demolitions, land clearances, and ethnic cleansings of the remaining Palestinians from their homeland, and no doubt he completely backs the same treatment for non-Jews in Lebanon, and any other territory in the Levant they can occupy.
In the Jewish dialectic, Isreal plays the key role in the globalist endgame, not only by being the EXCEPTION as the “leader people”, but also the dominant “owner class”. It can play the role of “bad cop” to those unwashed by the money power, without fear. The Abraham Accords to control Muslim nations, and the appointment of Zio Zelensky to head up the Ukraine, were the main works of the Trump administration in 2019-2020. The Accords ensured Muslim neutrality for what was planned in Gaza and for the brinkmanship in using the war in the Ukraine for its abandonment of Syria and its predicted betrayal of Iran. All of this is entirely Kosher to the general American mindset. Most of the non-Jewish people are at heart mostly money-orientated, and they gladly turn a blind eye to the methods their nation has used all of over the globe in building up their business empire and their holdings. The ground zero of the globalist movement is the international banking cartel, but its chief base and center of operation is not in Europe. It is the USA.
Once the remaining huge assets in independent nations such as Iran and Venezuela are in the clutches of these powers, and likely after they escalate the conflict with Russia to a substantial DEFCON threat of a nuclear WWIII (the guts of which threat again will be furnished another bloody psyop), the globalist will take charge to impose their globalist world order, “to make up safe”. As with the Rothschild-backed, Coudenhove-Kalergi policy to end borders and deliberately insure racial mixing of Caucasians and Asians, the Jews we find were the EXCEPTION to the plans. Following 2030 with all competition dumbed down, divided, diversified, in debt, and depressed, sick and mostly infertile from all of the toxins being administered over the past 60 years, the Rothschild silk-road plans to make the expanded Isreal THE major trade hub on the globe will be a cake walk, where because of the deceptions and their mastery of the dialectic, while the rest of the people of the world are thus oppressed, the “leader people” can at last have their cake and eat it too.
“New Short Docu Fully Explains…how Communist and Globalist Narratives are One and the Same!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YY6XNlqmSo
Hmmm. . .Ethnic Cleansing(?) A dumb POS IDF soldier crawls over the fence and shoots a bunch of peace loving people in Lebanon – that’s ok, I suppose in the Yinon Plan to create the Greater Israel, but that little pip squeak country causes more problems than you can imagine – can you guess the extent of terrorism expansion if these same whackos controlled the G. Israel? Damn, Smith and Wesson and Raytheon would have their employees working double overtime just to supply the tools of genocide!! But the Khazars / Ashkenazi’s own the shares and make money – it’s a double edge sword, invade, kill, control everything, then repeat – with the bordering countries. And these psychos are the ‘Chosen’? I suppose it depends on who wrote the book. I gotta better idea and it rhymes with, GITMO / guillotine – and finally free the world of this vermin.
Southern Lebanon = ancient Galilee, where Jesus lived and taught. It has now been carpet-bombed by jews, 4,000 bombs dropped on it last year alone.
Lebanon is a wonderfully mild culture. how come Christians want the Holy Land to be occupied by the one and only people on Earth that hate Jesus Christ?
I just don’t get it.