Today in Labor History June 6, 1982: Israel invaded Lebanon, remaining until June 6, 1985. The war was led by Ariel Sharon, who later became prime minister, despite the Kahan Commission later finding him culpable for the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which killed up to 3,500 Palestinian refugees and Lebanese Shiites. By the end of the war, Israel had lost over 650 soldiers. However, up to 2,400 PLO militants and 1,200 Syria soldiers were killed. And as many as 20,000 civilians were killed during the war.
Massive back to back airstrikes by Israeli airforce against multiple targets in #Lebanon:
Kuneen
Odaiseh
Kuneen (again same location)
Sidqeen
🌷 Ambulance dispatched to scan the areas in Kuneen and Sidqeen. An ambulance is reported to have been damaged.
Video available on telegram: t.me/newsvideofa/2496
Today in Labor History June 5, 1967: Israel attacked Egypt and Syria, during the Six-Day War, resulting in its illegal occupation of the Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, Gaza Strip & Golan Heights, and the displacement of 400,000 Palestinians. During the war, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Kuwait all supported the Arab coalition. Over 700 Israeli soldiers died in the war. 10,000-16,000 died on the Arab side. Additionally, 15 UN peacekeepers died, as well as 34 U.S. marines, navy and National Security Agents, who died when Israel torpedoed the USS Liberty, a U.S. spy ship that was in international waters. Israel claimed it was an accident and the U.S. government officially accepted this explanation. However, many believed it was a deliberate attack, including Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, and many survivors of the attack.
The Israeli military’s widespread use of white phosphorous munitions in its cross-border attacks on southern Lebanon is placing civilians at grave risk, and adding to the further displacement of local people, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
In a new report, the New York-based global rights group said it had documented the use of white phosphorous by Israel in attacks on at least 17 municipalities in southern Lebanon since October 2023.
Israeli right-wing outlets are calling for war in Lebanon after Hezbollah's strikes in northern Israel.
"The north is burning, and with it is the Israeli Deterrence Force, and this is a Government without a strategy." – Yair Lapid, Israeli Politician and current Leader of Opposition.
"The fires in northern Israel are evidence of bankruptcy and the continuation of the containment policy, and it is time for Lebanon to burn." – Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli Minister of National Security.
Fires have been spreading massively across northern Israel for the last 12 hours. It has yet to be extinguished.
A state of emergency has been declared in northern Israel as a result of the firestorm created by Hezbollah strikes.
Israeli Media: 'Hezbollah has created an uninhabitable zone of fire in the North; we must go to war in Lebanon as soon as possible, or the Galilee will be at risk of becoming a permanent no-go zone'
Israeli media reports that 32 fire units have been working to extinguish the flames in northern #Israel, but are hampered by poor weather and the sheer size of the #fires.
Israeli Media: 'Hezbollah has created an uninhabitable zone of fire in the North; we must go to war in #Lebanon as soon as possible, or the Galilee will be at risk of becoming a permanent no-go zone'
In continued clashes between Israel and the Lebanese resistance force Hezbollah in the south of #Lebanon, Israel's vaunted #IronDome has been targeted and temporarily disabled. #Israel
This is what West is supporting: "In Gaza, if you ask me, instead of taking them to the south, we should have told them to go to the beaches. Then the navy would know how to load them (onto boats). Put them in the refugee camps with their brothers in #Lebanon... Leave Gaza with nothing in it."
Head of the #Metula municipality, a northern Israeli settlement near Lebanon, David Azulay, suggests in a podcast to completely ethnically cleanse Palestinians in Gaza and make it a place "like #Auschwitz."
🚨 Lebanese Hezbollah fired more than 40 rockets towards Israel in the last 2 hours.
That's ~3 hours prior to this post @WarMonitors> ⚡️Hezb-Allah published a video of them striking the headquarters of the 91st Division, in the Beranit barracks of the Israeli enemy army, on the Lebanese-Palestinian border.
#Lebanon, Israeli occupation aircraft launch multiple and extensive airstrikes on residential blocks in the towns of Aadloun, Ain Qana, Houmin Al-Fawqa, Tayr Harfa, Jebbayn, and Marwahin.
According to a Senior Israeli Defense Official, the Order has now been given to the #IDF Northern Command and other Forces in Northern #Israel to Expand Military Operations against #Hezbollah in Southern #Lebanon.
#Netanyahu will set the region on fire before leaving office.
#IDF warplanes launched 5 airstrikes on Aita Al-Shaab, Khiam, and the outskirts of Meis Al-Jabal in southern #Lebanon in the morning of Tuesday May 28th.
#Lebanon: #Syrians homeless after demolition of al-Waha camp on May 20 - it had housed more than 1,500 Syrian refugees in the Koura area of the North governorate @lebanon@syria