Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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And even by Israeli wars on Lebanon standards, which is saying a lot, as of time of recording, at least 20% of the entirety of Lebanon has already been displaced.
And for the most part, these are people that had already experienced displacement at least once in 2024 when this war started, if not older patterns of displacements going back to the civil war and the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in the 80s and 90s and so on.
And pretty unclear where this is headed.
Because just hours before we even started recording, they escalated their bombings of bridges connecting South Lebanon to the rest of Lebanon, bridges over the Litani River, which is one of the rivers in the south, as part of the attempt to cut off the entire region of South Lebanon from the rest of the country.
And yeah, we can get into more of the details and the impact that this is having on Lebanon itself, of course, because this tends to be, unfortunately, not covered as much.
Yeah, thank you.
It's important to note that such comments are not new at all, and they have also been uttered in times of quote-unquote peace, so when there isn't any kind of active conflict.
In my own article for 972, which I wrote about, I don't know, two weeks ago or so, I quoted a number of those politicians, and I'll just mention a few of them here.
You have Gallant, who has, of course, since been and still has an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court.
He threatened to send Lebanon back to the Stone Age, and this was in November 2024.
The diaspora affairs minister, Amishai Chikli, declared in September 2024 that Lebanon, quote, does not meet the definition of a state.
And he described all of the Shia population of Lebanon as, quote, unquote, hostile, which is genocidal language by definition.
And even about two or three weeks ago or so, Smotrich, who's one of the main far-right politicians in Israel today, said that very soon, as I'm quoting, very soon, Dahye will resemble Khan Yunus.
Dahye being the southern suburb of Beirut, where there's a lot of support for Hezbollah and has always been talked about by the Israelis as one of the, quote-unquote, Hezbollah strongholds.
In fact, they pioneered, you might say, the Dahi Doctrine in 2006, so named after Dahi.
There was a war in 2006 as well between Israel and Hezbollah, which is quite explicitly a policy of bombing civilian infrastructure in order to put pressure on the enemy, in this case Hezbollah, which is
basically an acknowledgement that they violate international law as state policy.
And on March 11, a member of the Knesset for the same party as Smotrich said, and I'm quoting, we must conquer territory in southern Lebanon, destroy villages there and annex the territory to the state of Israel, end quote.
There's another one, Gadi Eisenkot, who was the former chief of staff of the Israeli army, the IDF.
said around the same time, I think it was a couple of weeks ago, quote, the Da'ahid doctrine has never been more relevant than right now, and it must be implemented, end quote.
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