Foreign Affairs
Related: About this forumIsrael launches huge strikes against south Beirut after mass evacuation order
Israel has launched massive strikes against the southern suburbs of Beirut just hours after its military ordered the entire population of the area more than 500,000 people to evacuate immediately.
The Israel Defense Forces had told all residents of the area to save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately, prompting an exodus of the Lebanese capitals population in scenes of panic, before its warplanes launched strikes against what it claimed were Hezbollah targets in the area. The area covered by the order included several hospitals and government ministries.
The strikes marked a significant escalation in Israels growing offensive in Lebanon, which began after Hezbollah fired missiles and drones into Israel on Monday.
Footage on Thursday evening showed smoke billowing over the neighbourhood of Dahiya. Israels far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said that the strikes would make the Beirut suburb look like [Gazas] Khan Younis, a section of southern Gaza that has been almost entirely destroyed by Israeli bombs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/israel-orders-more-500-000-192312851.html
AloeVera
(4,184 posts)Bread and Circuses
(1,912 posts)Beirut, often called the "Paris of the Middle East" and the "Jewel of the Levant.
All to be destroyed for
https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2026/02/21/us-ambassador-mike-huckabee-backs-greater-israel-expansion-to-whole-middle-east/
Sitting across from commentator Tucker Carlson, United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee was presented with a map defined not by the 1967 borders, but by the ancient boundaries of the Old Testament. When asked if Israel maintains a divine right to territory stretching from the River Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraqa domain spanning nearly the entire LevantHuckabees response was unequivocal. It would be okay if they took it all,