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What is in this thumbnail picture? I can’t see it in the article.
How much of Lebanese land is Isreal occupying now?
The short answer is about the same as yesterday.
The ceasefire defines a 60 day window for them to gradually withdraw (at an agreed rate), while Hezbollah moves away to the north and the Lebanese military move into the south.
Hey, look, that’s white phosphorus, it’s a war crime on the featured image! Yay normalization of barbarity UwU
Is there an image available with a higher resolution? Because you can’t really see what is being bombed in the picture. Using white phosphorous is only a war crime if it is used close to civilians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munition#International_law
This is the image. (I use imagus or hover zoom which enlarges images all over the web upon hover)
There do appear to be civilian buildings with lights on in the image.
Combatants fight in civilian areas regularly.
Are you trying to say they’re targeting it at the combatants and therefore it is OK to use it in a civilian area?
Because the photo just above makes it pretty obvious that it isn’t a weapon that can be used in a targeted fashion.
Yes, that’s legal under international humanitarian law. Being in a civilian area does not protect combatants from being targeted.
Proportionality applies, but that’s it. That means attacking combatants in a civilian area has to serve a military objective.
Is it not “use of air-delivered incendiary weapons against military targets in civilian areas” ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventional_Weapons .
It’s been replaced by a picture of Joe Biden, so I dunno. That said:
- Human Rights Watch: Lebanon: Israel’s White Phosphorous Use Risks Civilian Harm
- Amnesty International: Lebanon: Evidence of Israel’s unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities escalate
Israel has no credibility when it comes to war crimes against civilians.
It hasn’t been replaced on my end, even with disabled caching. But yeah, this is probably a war crime. 😞 You’d think Israel would know better with their history.
From the nakba, to their initiation of the six day war and the resulting ethnic displacement of some 400k people, to their 80s invasion of Lebanon and the resulting ethnic cleansing at Sabra and Shatila, to their siege on gaza since 2008 targeting civilians by cutting off food and building materials and regular bombings, to their reaction to the peaceful march of return protests (snipers targeting the elderly, children, and the disabled), to the current ongoing well-documented genocide, what is it about the history of Israel that makes you think they should know better? They’re literally built on war crimes and atrocities.
If you’re talking about the holocaust, that’s part of the history of Jewish people, not that of Israel. And many Jewish people do criticize Israel for its war crimes, precisely because of the holocaust. Israel is not the same as the Jewish people, and conflating the two is actually kind of antisemitic.
I meant the fact that in the past decades a lot of them moved to Israel, because they fled from somewhere else.
That’s called settler colonialism
Could also just be thermite
What a relief! , Here I was thinking it was an incendiary non-discriminate weapon that could horribly maim civilians if used in a densely populated city like beirut.
Yay normalization of barbarity!
I understand that Lebanon has to look out for themselves and recover from the horrific terrorist pager attacks and civilian apartment building bombings of Israel, but this isn’t good for Gaza. Now Israel is free to complete their genocide without opposition =( Everyone needs to participate in BDS. We need to pressure Israel in other ways now.
Hezbollah is not lebanon. Fuck them.
The pager attack killed children and Lebanese civilians, i guess fuck them too.
Ask all the Syrian and Lebanese children killed by Hezbollah how they’re doing.
Good people don’t make excuses to kill children
This is classic clanoizier mentality. “We will take your land, kill everyone ignoring any rules of war, that we set for the world, and you cannot fight back, and if you do you are a terrorist.”
I dont want to talk about the political aspects because I am not well informed, but does anyone know what the thumbnail photo is of? It looks almost other-worldly. I’m assuming it is a weapon of some sort?
It’s white phosphorus if I’m not wrong. Used for ‘spotting targets’ aka committing war crimes.
Could also just be thermite which has a similar burning metal look
I… remember that level.
Fucking hell I forgot about spec ops
oh, fuck
It’s supposed to be used as a smokescreen, but it burns very hot so it’s occasionally used as a weapon in war crimes.
I admit I did not believe both sides would agree when I read this was close yesterday.
Well you were basically right. The ceasefire lasted less than a day.
Got a source for this? Last I saw the ceasefire seems to still be holding, if tenuously
Hooray?
A decision to instantly save money, save economies, save lives and people’s blood, save the climate, and start talking like humans instead of luanching metals into each other. I hate wars and the people who profit from destruction of the planet and mass bloodsheding of civilians. Israel’s war crimes fully sponsored, supported and funded by the US have shown their true image oppressing and genociding whom they illegally colonize.
Their hypocrasy made putin look good taking over Ukraine, and legitimized China’s intent to take over Taiwan by so many levels. You don’t have the right to defend injustice and what you colonize from others wether your name was Israel, Russia, or China. and everyone is sick of hearing about those Western values then seeing them on display as ethnic cleansing and genocide against oppressed stateless people in a ethnostate aparthied.Open diplomacy at least in this case is temporarily stopping death. This is something to be celebrated! Good on Biden for doing this. Why cant Biden do the same for Ukraine?
“And over the next 60 days, Israel will gradually withdraw its remaining forces.”
Guess who’s not willing to withdraw their forces back to their own territory.
“we are already in our own territory, why should we withdraw”
Hizbollah?
I don’t think they have a choice specially if we cut funding for Israel. We are forcing them to stop we should be doing the same with Ukraine and Russia. Peace is attainable for sure! Also they are only withdrawing from Lebanon what about Gaza?
Who is cutting funding for Israel? And if if that was a factor in the recent ceasefire (which I’m not aware off) … how does that apply to Ukraine? We already cut all “funding” to Russia and sanction them.
What about gaza? They didn’t withdraw like you are saying.
I didn’t say that?
The ceasefire deal is with Hezbollah (which is in Lebanon) and not with Hamas (which is in Gaza). That is what the article you are currently commenting on, is about.
Yea you did.
I was quoting the article that is talking about the withdrawl from Lebanon. Lebanon is not Gaza. Nobody in this comment chain was talking about Gaza until you just now.
So the clusterfuck Hezbollah - Lebanese government will continue.
I sort of recall that these hezbowlers and their friends eeeseeess pieces removed the thinking part from one of our comrades in the media. It’s been a weird sort of war. Accordingly Israel has actually murdered thousands of children, women and other innocent people including members of the media. The war was started by an attack from the loosing party. Israel shot and killed a woman Journalist named Shirin Abu Akhala may 2022 this before the war really started. Maybe she knew something the rest of us didn’t about the incoming war? Now the entire country has been erased apparently with a small portion of the population remaining. So now is the right time to stop? 😞🛑. I mean sure it should stop. But like we all thought it was time to stop right after it began and the reports started coming in about innocent people being murdered. Then came images of total destruction and murder by drone like remote extermination. Anyway, Trump is an idiot, so if a smart person didn’t stop the war, maybe a total retard can?
