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Brenda

(2,077 posts)
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 04:59 PM 15 hrs ago

Israeli Strikes Have Decimated Farmland in Southern Lebanon

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have devastated orchards and fields. Lebanese officials say that one-fifth of the country’s farmland has been damaged in the course of the war.

The latest bout of fighting began in March, when Israel deployed troops in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah, a militant group backed by Iran. The fighting — part of the larger war between Israel, the U.S., and Iran — has uprooted more than 1 million people in Lebanon. Some 600,000 will be indefinitely displaced as Israel works to take control of the region, destroying villages along its border with Lebanon to create a “buffer zone” with Hezbollah. Thus far, Israeli strikes have killed more than 2,100 people, including 168 children.

Lebanese leaders have condemned Hezbollah for its attacks on Israel and demanded the group disarm. They have also called the Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon a “land grab” and said that Israel has “blatantly violated the principles of international law and international humanitarian law.”

Nearly four in five farmers in southern Lebanon have been displaced, according to the report, and fighting may be complicating their return. White phosphorus, a toxic chemical scattered by Israeli artillery shells, is damaging soil, Lebanese officials say.

WAR FUCKING CRIMES by Israel and the USA thanks to Chump and Repubs.

I am so ashamed to be an American.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/lebanon-war-farmland
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Israeli Strikes Have Decimated Farmland in Southern Lebanon (Original Post) Brenda 15 hrs ago OP
Israel's very good at war; at ethnic cleansing; at seizing land; at allowing Jews to terrorize West Bank Palestinians. patphil 15 hrs ago #1
Good post. Only when the war criminals Netanyahu and Trump are Brenda 15 hrs ago #3
Netanyahu destroyed the moonscape 15 hrs ago #2
The "vision" for Greater Israel Bettie 14 hrs ago #6
Bekaa Valley is the bread basket of Lebanon JCMach1 14 hrs ago #4
I saw a moving clip of a moonscape 14 hrs ago #7
DURec leftstreet 14 hrs ago #5

patphil

(9,132 posts)
1. Israel's very good at war; at ethnic cleansing; at seizing land; at allowing Jews to terrorize West Bank Palestinians.
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 05:12 PM
15 hrs ago

They need to be better at making peace; at building bridges between themselves and their neighbors; at helping create a peaceful and prosperous middle east community.
Terrorism creates terrorism.
The war between Arab and Jew has been going on since the 1940's.
When will it ever end? Certainly not with bombs, rockets, missiles, tanks, and invading armies.
The seeds of the next generation of Arab terrorists has been sown in Gaza and fertilized with the blood of the innocent women and children killed by Israel.
And now they are doing it again in Lebanon.

War never makes peace, it just insures that, if nothing else changes, there will be more war.

Brenda

(2,077 posts)
3. Good post. Only when the war criminals Netanyahu and Trump are
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 05:22 PM
15 hrs ago

in prison or hanged for their crimes will there be any semblance of peace talks.

moonscape

(5,781 posts)
2. Netanyahu destroyed the
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 05:22 PM
15 hrs ago

last remaining bridge over the Litani yesterday in advance of the cease fire, but some are trying to return to their homes anyway and getting some help with internal reconstruction efforts.

No matter what one thinks of Hezbollah, it was Netanyahu that kept bombing Lebanon during the ceasefire, not the other way around. If Israel needs a buffer zone, then create it on their side vs grabbing land from a country that’s half your size. Taking south of Litani would be proportionately akin to a foreign power taking California and Texas from us.

Bettie

(19,781 posts)
6. The "vision" for Greater Israel
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 05:41 PM
14 hrs ago

includes all of Lebanon...and all of Jordan...actually, most of the region.

Article includes image of the goal.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/greater-israel-theology-as-cartography-cartography-as-catastrophe/

Netanyahu wants territory....and to kill people, I think he, like that orange sack of whatever that we have running the show, just think they ARE god.

moonscape

(5,781 posts)
7. I saw a moving clip of a
Fri Apr 17, 2026, 06:14 PM
14 hrs ago

shepherd moving hundreds of his goats and sheep from Southern Lebanon with destination Bekaa Valley because he had no place else to go. He had been walking with them along roads and highways for a few days and had a couple/few more to go.

So many lives upended, altered, obliterated.

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