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From Gaza to Lebanon and beyond, patterns of forced displacement and destruction reveal the Israeli colonial logic of erasure. 🔴 Why Land Matters “For a colonized people, the most essential value, because it is the most meaningful, is first and foremost the land: the land, which must provide bread and, naturally, dignity.” Frantz Fanon 🔴 Demographic Erasure 📌 The Israeli occupation has forcibly displaced over 1 million people in Lebanon and over 2 million in Gaza. 📌 What happens to those who refuse displacement? They are killed. 📌 Result: The demographic composition of the land is altered. 🔴 Geographic Erasure 📌 The Israeli occupation scorches the land, erasing all recognizable features. 📌 It renders the land uninhabitable in an attempt to erase collective memory. 📌 Result: The geographic composition of the land is altered, and so is its future. 🔴 “Greater Israel” Commenced “There will be a clear political strategy in Gaza that expands our borders, …in Lebanon that expands our borders to the Litani river… in Syria, on Mount Hermon.” Bezalel Smotrich Israeli Finance Minister 🔴 Impunity → Continued Erasure 📌 The genocide in Gaza was used as a litmus test and a blueprint. 📌 Not only arms and technologies, but also the extent of impunity was tested. 📌 First it was Palestine, then Lebanon, Syria, Iran… and the list will go on.

Our report detailing the repeated Israeli military attacks on paramedics and healthworkers in Lebanon. The young paramedic we talk to at the end was killed in yesterday’s triple hit on emergency crews trying to help the wounded