There was supposed to be a ceasefire. Israel violated it hundreds of times.
After the November 2024 "ceasefire" - and before the Iran war - Israel started demolishing the Lebanese border villages and bombing south Lebanon over 400 times, killing around 500 people and causing immense damage to homes and infrastructure. In a further violation of the ceasefire, Israel did not withdraw from south Lebanon.
During these 15 months of Israel's near-daily violation of the ceasefire and refusal to withdraw, Hezbollah did not launch even one rocket or projectile into Israel.
Per INIFIL (?) the UN peacekeeping group for Lebanon, Hezbollah launched "several" rockets into Israel on March 2, 2026 in retaliation for the killing of Iran's ayatollah. No one was killed. Israel immediately started bombing Lebanon with ferocity, killing 31 people and wounding 149 on the very first day and eventually invading up to the Litani and now beyond - to date killing 3,213 people and forcibly displacing 1.2 million, a third of the Lebanese population. It has also occupied about a third (?) of Lebanon. If you think it is ever going to let those people back into their homes, you might want to refresh on what happened to Palestinians in 1948 and after.
Israel is now destroying the ancient city of Tyre, a cradle of human civilization long before Abraham, Jesus or Mohammed ever set foot in the "Holy Land".
I am utterly sick and tired of watching Israel and its ever-faithful supporters go on about Israel's "right to exist" and "security" and "self-defense" while denying the same rights to its neighbours and the Palestinians and raining death and destruction - terrorism - on them using any pretext to expand its territory.
I am making it a point to limit my engagement with anyone still defending or making excuses for Israel, like I do with Trump supporters. Both are bad for my health and both are futile.
Peace.
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