It started with pagers exploding then beepers. Israel remotely detonated hundreds of handheld pagers used by members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, killing at least 12 people. Two children were among the fatalities of the terror attack, which also wounded thousands and overwhelmed Lebanese hospitals.
The following day, walkie-talkies exploded across the country, ending 20 lives. Two days after that, on Friday, an air strike on a densely populated neighbourhood in the Lebanese capital of Beirut killed scores of people. And on Monday, the Israeli military commenced a patently psychopathic bombing spree over various sectors of Lebanon that has killed more than 550 people, including 50 children.
In addition to the physical bombardment, Lebanese phones are also being bombarded with evacuation warnings courtesy of Israel – a form of terror in their own right given Israel’s history of ordering folks to evacuate and then bombing them when they comply.
During Israel’s 34-day war on Lebanon in 2006, for example, 23 residents of the southern Lebanese village of Marwahin were slaughtered at close range by an Israeli military helicopter as they followed Israeli instructions to abandon their homes. Most of the dead were children.
The recent attacks in Lebanon have intensified, with the death toll from Israeli strikes rising to at least 558, including a significant number of children and women. This escalation includes attacks on densely populated areas, with reports of airstrikes on buildings in southern Beirut leading to numerous casualties. According to Al Jazeera and the Lebanese Health Ministry, at least 558 people, including 50 children, have been killed and 1,835 wounded in Israel’s fierce bombardment of various parts of Lebanon.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired a barrage of missiles at Israeli air bases in response as world leaders and the United Nations called for urgent de-escalation.
Initial pager attack
@AjAqrabawi For eight hours straight and counting, Israel has been carpet-bombing densely populated neighbourhoods of Beirut and greater Lebanon. A new bomb dropped, a new tragedy—every 5 minutes. Videos out of Tel Aviv show Israelis dancing at celebration parties.
Children died in pager attackOz Katerji gloating the death of the Lebanese girl with the pager attack. Many people trusted his coverage of the Syrian war
ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER KATZ OFFICIAL STATEMENT “Nasrallah has taken the people of Lebanon hostage, placing missiles and weapons in their homes and villages to threaten Israel’s civilians. This is a clear war crime. We will not accept this reality and will act with full force to change it. The people of Lebanon must evacuate any home turned into a Hezbollah outpost to avoid harm. We will not stop until the threat is removed from Israel’s citizens and the residents of the north return safely to their homes.”@ciarantierney: The @BBC International Editor @BowenBBC has described pagers being blown up in public places all across #Lebanon as a “tactical triumph” and a “spectacular coup”. This was the youngest victim of the attack.
24 September: “This building houses the ministry of information. A staff member got a call from the Israeli army telling her to evacuate it.. it doesn’t belong to Hezbollah, this is the govt of Lebanon. People are wondering, just how far the Israelis are prepared to go”@BenFRubinstein: These are the same type of videos we saw before Israel would bomb hospitals in Gaza. They’re telling the world that they will soon commit another genocide. Israel must be stopped.“Lebanon will be annihilated”. How an Israeli official’s slip of the tongue reveals that Israel’s genocidal intentions extend beyond Palestine. A direct result of US and EU backing of any war crime Israel chooses to commit whenever, wherever…Bill Maher makes fun of the pagers attack
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU OFFICIAL STATEMENT “I have a message for the people of Lebanon: Israel’s war is not with you. It’s with Hezbollah. For too long, Hezbollah has been using you as human shields. It placed rockets in your living rooms and missiles in your garage.”The voices of children can be heard from under the rubble in Lebanon.This is the Saad-Dabaja family. They lost their lives yesterday among the hundreds in Lebanon.@intifada The exploding pagers operation in Lebanon was a historic crime, said @JonElmer. Thousands of pagers were shipped across the world and detonated throughout civilian areas.
20 September: China: “Remotely detonating communications devices in indiscriminate attacks, causing mass civilian casualties and panic is unheard of in history… The attacks were so outrageously brutal and atrocious that they deserve nothing less than condemnation in the strongest terms.”
From the Operating Room Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 19, 2024 @GhassanAbuSitt1 / Palestinian-British Surgeon Rector, University of Glasgow
Chinese journalist: this is terrorismIsrael just brought down 6 buildings in Beirut, killing everyone inside. Child, woman, and man. The death toll is said to be in the hundreds.
Carpet bombing BeirutIt’s a war crime whether Nasrallah was inside or not
I spoke twice with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant yesterday about events in Lebanon. I expressed my full support for Israel’s right to defend itself and its people against Iranian backed terrorist groups. I stressed that the United States is determined to prevent Iran and Iranian-backed partners and proxies from exploiting the situation or expanding the conflict. I made it clear that the United States remains postured to protect U.S. forces and facilities in the region and committed to the defense of Israel.
“Netanyahu wants to set the region on fire. His only chance of survival is to drag America into a war with Hezbollah & Iran. This is a fundamental threat to world peace. Everyone should be hoping for his downfall.” @davidahearst
@swilkinsonbc ·Missiles launched from Lebanon have struck one of the israeli ‘David’s Sling’ air defense systems: a complete media blackout has been enforced
Biden’s words about the correctness of killing the Hezbollah leader demonstrate the US approach to conflicts, Lavrov said. “Remember how Hillary Clinton, when they showed live broadcast of Muammar Gaddafi covered in blood, was delighted and laughed, looking at the screen. Or Madeleine Albright, who, commenting on the processes started by the American aggression against Iraq, said: well, yes, 400 thousand died, but it was worth it, democracy was worth it,” the Russian Foreign Affair minister said. _______________ The more I look at “Rules based world order”, the more I understand, that real civilization was on our side of the iron curtain, not on the side of the West. Looks like they are stuck in early Middle Ages and cannot get out of there. Even the way they interact with free press resembles their way of dealing with “heretics” several centuries ago…
29 September: Ain Al Deeb massacre: Our children are in pieces, says al-Mayadeen reporter in tears: this is the reality of the israelis — they are targeting nothing but civilians, he addsIsrael announced it won’t let any Iranian planes land in Beirut x.com/N12News/status…
The article was deleted the same day.Land grab1 Oct: deliberately targetting civilians in Lebanon. IDF admitting it in a warning telephone to a civilian to leave his house “for his own good.”Mohammad Hassan Bilal Saad, has joined his mother, father, brother, and sister, who were all killed by Israeli airstrikes in the town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon.
Lebanese ministry Ministry of Health: 24 people killed & 29 others injured in initial toll of #Israeli aggression on Ain al-Delb, east of #Sidon, in southern #Lebanon. The targeted building was housing displaced people.1 October: Dr. Mads Gilbert: Same story, same endless impunity: ISrael again attacks ravage and kills in Lebanon – 42 years after the invasion in 1982, with siege and senseless bombing of Beirut- and the horrible massacres in Sabra and Chatilla. I was there. Now I’m here in Nabatieh and ask: why hasn’t Israel been stopped? Dr. MadsIman and Talia Musa Nasr, were killed in Israeli raids on Al-Bazouriyeh, Lebanon.
Israel killed Julia Ramadan along with her mother in the airstrike in Saida, Lebanon. She spent her last days trying to help the displaced in Lebanon, provide food and shelter.Jalal al Faris and his three siblings all murdered by Israel in Southern LebanonJalal and his three siblings
Dina Darwiche, a UNHCR employee, was killed alongside her son Jad in an Israeli strike that struck their home in Bekaa, Lebanon
10-year-old Fatima Jaafar Abdullah was killed in the Israel terrorist attack in Lebanon.
1 Oct: Israel has wiped out 13 residential buildings in Beirut just tonight.
30 Sept: Israel bombs a church in Lebanon
30 Sept: @yanisvaroufakis ·Israel attacked the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian camp in south Lebanon. These are stateless people in limbo ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948 from homes they can’t even visit. The lie that it all started on 7/10 last year must be put to rest. Now!2 Oct: The Israeli army conducted 8704 air strikes on Lebanon since it started its aggression . Since then 1728 Lebanese, mostly civilians, were killed and 9296 were injured. 1,200,000 Lebanese were displaced due to Israeli military operations.
1 Oct: @DrMadsGilbert Now they fly their drones over the scared people trying to sleep. Some scared, some angry, some strong. Sleep deprivation is a method of torture. Torture is prohibited. The Israelis have been doing sleep deprivation for decades and decades in Gaza, and now they’re doing it in Lebanon. (It’s forbidden, it’s torture.) Nobody punishes Israel. We must punish Israel. Through solidarity work, awareness-raising and constant campaigns, and now we must get the Norwegian money out of Israeli companies and out of companies that profit from occupation and colonial policy. It has to GO NOW, regardless of what the oil fund’s ethics collaborators might think. And Vedum, I tell you one thing: Get into your galoshes, divest now, if you don’t want to get as dark a place in history as some of your party predecessors did. Listen to the drones! Dr. Mads
2 Oct: Israel has just bombed the very centre of Beirut — Bachoura — just meters away from Lebanese Parliament and United Nations Regional Headquarters No warnings were given and this is a strike in an area considered “safe” They are retaliating to their failure in the South by bombing civilians in the capital
3 Oct: The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has described Israel’s strike on Beirut which is now known to have killed paramedics, as a “violation of international humanitarian law”. In a post to social media, he wrote: IDF targeted once again healthcare workers overnight, in central Beirut: seven people including paramedics were killed. Not only civilians are victims of attacks, including in densely populated areas, but they are deprived of emergency care. I condemn this violation of IHL.6 October: Western media coverage is entirely focused on the war with Iran, diverting attention from the brutal slaughter of Lebanese civilians. Death toll has reached 1974 127 children killed 9,384 injured 1.2 million displaced
