Please look at these images of the war in Lebanon
These images represent the reality of war. Please try to imagine yourself, a ten year old child, holding your mother as she dies, and for what? Imagine yourself waking up, getting a coffee, going shopping and realizing suddenly that you must flee RIGHT NOW with nothing because your country has been invaded.
There is something that people never point out about this conflict:
(1) Here is the real sequence of events:
a) Israel kidnaps a Palestinian doctor and his brother on June 24 - no one knows still what has become of them
b) In retaliation, Hamas kidnaps an Israeli soldier on June 25
c) Israel attacks Gaza claiming that they are only fighting for the release of their soldier but they never mention that they have kidnapped the Palestinians first, as well as several members of the Palestinian government previously
d) Hezbollah captures 2 Israeli soldiers. Israel and Hezbollah have been in conflict since the 1980s. This is par for the course, meaning that Hezbollah and Israel regularly do prisoner exchanges. At this point, Hezbollah HAS NOT fired any rockets into Israel. NONE.
e) Israel launches a full scale attack on Lebanon. They openly target the civilian population of South Lebanon.
f) AFTER these attacks by Israel, Hezbollah retaliates by launching crude rockets into Israel. Many of them land in civilian areas, few of them kill civilians. As of now, about 40 Israelis have been killed, most of them soldiers. About 400 Lebanese have been killed, MOST OF THEM CIVILIANS. Moreover, thousands have been injured and about 900,000 Lebanese have been forced to flee. The population of Lebanon is almost 4 million. That means that 25% of the Lebanese population has been displaced.
(2) Israel continues to occupy Shebaa Farms and this is one reason that Hezbollah fights with Israel. If Israel would just relinquish this land, Lebanon's land, then there would be no conflict
Fighting to keep their land and way of life - Shebaa Farms
The region was captured by Israel from Syria during the Six Day War of 1967 and remained under Israeli control after the withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon in 2000. The Lebanese refer to the ridge at the northern end of the Shebaa Farms area as the Kafr Shuba Hills, an area that Israel refers to as Har Dov. This ridge, also partly within Lebanon, is east of the Lebanese village of Kafr Shuba.
Most Shebaa Farms land owners and farmers lived in the village of Shebaa, in undisputed Lebanese territory, and are no longer able to farm the land.[1][2] The Lebanese claim to this area is one reason for Hezbollah's continuing conflict with Israel and resulting cross border attacks.[3]
There is something that people never point out about this conflict:
(1) Here is the real sequence of events:
a) Israel kidnaps a Palestinian doctor and his brother on June 24 - no one knows still what has become of them
b) In retaliation, Hamas kidnaps an Israeli soldier on June 25
c) Israel attacks Gaza claiming that they are only fighting for the release of their soldier but they never mention that they have kidnapped the Palestinians first, as well as several members of the Palestinian government previously
d) Hezbollah captures 2 Israeli soldiers. Israel and Hezbollah have been in conflict since the 1980s. This is par for the course, meaning that Hezbollah and Israel regularly do prisoner exchanges. At this point, Hezbollah HAS NOT fired any rockets into Israel. NONE.
e) Israel launches a full scale attack on Lebanon. They openly target the civilian population of South Lebanon.
f) AFTER these attacks by Israel, Hezbollah retaliates by launching crude rockets into Israel. Many of them land in civilian areas, few of them kill civilians. As of now, about 40 Israelis have been killed, most of them soldiers. About 400 Lebanese have been killed, MOST OF THEM CIVILIANS. Moreover, thousands have been injured and about 900,000 Lebanese have been forced to flee. The population of Lebanon is almost 4 million. That means that 25% of the Lebanese population has been displaced.
(2) Israel continues to occupy Shebaa Farms and this is one reason that Hezbollah fights with Israel. If Israel would just relinquish this land, Lebanon's land, then there would be no conflict
Fighting to keep their land and way of life - Shebaa Farms
The region was captured by Israel from Syria during the Six Day War of 1967 and remained under Israeli control after the withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon in 2000. The Lebanese refer to the ridge at the northern end of the Shebaa Farms area as the Kafr Shuba Hills, an area that Israel refers to as Har Dov. This ridge, also partly within Lebanon, is east of the Lebanese village of Kafr Shuba.
Most Shebaa Farms land owners and farmers lived in the village of Shebaa, in undisputed Lebanese territory, and are no longer able to farm the land.[1][2] The Lebanese claim to this area is one reason for Hezbollah's continuing conflict with Israel and resulting cross border attacks.[3]
posted by Laurelle St. Laurent at 11:22 a.m.
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