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Lebanese Civil Defence reporting at least 254 killed and 1128 wounded in the I$raeli strikes across the country today. This figure is likely to rise as the bombing continues and emergency services work at the scene of the attacks where many are believed to be under the rubble. This is a massacre

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Beirut is under attack. Bombs going off all around us, multiple strikes across many parts of the city. Can’t post footage now for obvious reasons but people are desperately trying to find a place of safety. 100 strikes in 10 minutes across Lebanon. This is a clear message that there is no ceasefire on Israel’s part and that it is escalating its attacks on civilian areas

One hundred percent it is a zero percent chance. And one thousand percent f@#% these mothef@#%ers #statistics

This is who and what you’re country and your politicians are supporting

Of course Israel is going to sabotage the deal. It’s Israel.

This is my city, Beit Hanoun. It was once known as the “Green City” for its abundance of olive and orange trees. It produced and exported oranges and olives to the entire world. Israel has bulldozed the city, leaving not a single tree behind. Trees as old as history itself, that had lived for hundreds of years, were spared nothing by this Zionist terror.

It’s remarkable that Christians can publicly celebrate Easter in Tehran, but not in Jerusalem.

Biggest terrorists in the world. They’re using the Iran War as cover for their invasion of Lebanon. Our troops are used as distraction. American media has zero criticism of the new ethnic cleansing they’re doing in southern Lebanon. It’s insane that we’re funding the terrorists.

We need a mass world coalition to stop Israel’s genocidal march throughout the Middle East and the lawless terrorism and apartheid within its own borders. Boycott, Divest, and Sanction is the recipe to stop further violence. It’s Dr Martin Luther King’s strategy of peaceful change. We must deploy it en mass and create a coalition of those who we may not agree with politically on other fronts but find common ground on this rolling justice. It has awoken the moral center in most people.

Israel is ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon - a displacement of people bigger than the 1948 Nakba. It ought to be front and centre of western news reporting.

Everyone felt sad for the penguin walking alone and the monkey rejected by his mother. But this video is far more heartbreaking, yet it didn’t receive the same attention.

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Pentagon used an untested missile in combat and it hit a girls' volleyball practice in Iran... The New York Times confirmed that a Precision Strike Missile, a weapon that only finished prototype testing last year, struck a sports hall and elementary school in Lamerd on the first day of the war. At least 21 people were killed, including two schoolgirls, ages 10 and 11, and their volleyball coach. The PrSM is designed to detonate mid-air and blast tungsten pellets outward. Aftermath photos show the playground peppered with fragmentation holes. The IRGC compound next door has been walled off from the school for at least 15 years. CENTCOM's response: "We're aware of the reports and are looking into them." This was the same day a Tomahawk hit a school in Minab killing 175 people. Two schools on day one. One struck by a cruise missile. The other by a weapon so new the military was publicly celebrating its "combat debut" days later. Whether it was a targeting failure, a design flaw, or deliberate, the result is the same. Children died during volleyball practice from a weapon America had never fired in anger before... Source: New York Times

Israel has now seized a larger percentage of Lebanon's total landmass than Russia has taken from Ukraine since its 2022 invasion. The latter was immediately met with international uproar and unprecedented multi-sectoral sanctions while the former is barely even mentioned.

Matt, let me educate you on the points you’ve raised: America is the richest country in the world today because it invades countries and pillages their resources to build its own. Not because Americans are more hardworking or smarter than anybody else, but because its government steals whatever it sets its sights on. The recent invasion of Venezuela and the theft of its oil are still fresh in the world’s memory. And even though you “left” Iraq after invading it in 2003 under the false claim of WMDs, the Iraqi people still do not have access to their oil wealth except as Washington allows. No, America is not the most powerful country in the world. China is. America only seems powerful because it is the most brutal empire to have existed since the inception of humanity. America sees nothing wrong with killing schoolchildren, carpet-bombing cities, and using nuclear weapons on its enemies. It is this brutality that makes Americans erroneously think America is powerful. True power is pragmatic, patient, and slow to resort to violence, qualities which America lacks. This is why, even though China is the most powerful country in the world, it has not invaded any neighbours, kidnapped or assassinated leaders of sovereign countries, or used force. It prefers to settle disputes diplomatically. And this is exactly why the world now looks to China as the leader of the free world. Finally, America is the most charitable country in the world because it costs it nothing to be charitable, but its charity doesn’t come free. The dollar system it has imposed on the world makes it seem charitable: it costs nothing to print dollars and distribute them to Global South countries in exchange for resources. When those countries refuse your dollars, you organise regime change by bribing dishonest dissidents in their governments. Unlike China, you never help poor countries develop infrastructure, because that would mean helping them grow, something your foreign policy despises. You only give them dollars printed for free, which end up in the pockets of your installed puppets. It is also why you can sponsor terrorism under the guise of charity through institutions like USAID. Don’t take my word for it, a US congressman revealed this. So, Matt, I advise you to learn more about your own country. You’d realise that even though you’re the richest, you live on stolen wealth, you are not the most powerful but only the most brutal, and your charity is not really charity but a terrorism-funding and regime-change ploy.

Belgium’s MEP Marc Botenga exposes Europe’s hypocrisy: “You sanction Russia, which attacks Ukraine — but you support the United States when it bombs Iran. You condemn Russia, which occupies Ukraine — but you support Israel occupying Palestine and Lebanon. We blame our opponents for what we allow our allies to do — cheerfully — while smiling at Tel Aviv and Washington. The double standard of this Europe is not only a shame — it creates a world of chaos and wars, a world in which we do not want to live, and in which we do not want our children to grow up. Today, this Europe is not a force for good, but an accomplice to crime. That’s enough.”

@wanglaurentceo Something like that, if confirmed, should not just "end careers", but be immediately investigated and prosecuted. Imposing collective punishment on civilians is an international crime.

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Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken