Israel’s demolition of southern Lebanon:

 The British-Palestinian writer Selma Dabbagh in the LRB on Israel’s demolition of southern Lebanon:

The Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said at the beginning of March that the southern suburbs of Beirut “will become like Khan Younis”. What Israel did to Gaza, it is now doing to Lebanon: the indiscriminate bombing of urban centres; the dropping of bunker busters and cluster munitions; the use of white phosphorous in residential areas and the destruction of crops; the land grabbing and efforts to cut off water supplies; the targeting of humanitarian aid workers, rescue workers, health workers and schools.

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