The Israeli army wants to impose a buffer zone on the border with Lebanon approximately 100 kilometers long. It is doing so by devastating the forests and vegetation cover with phosphorus bombardment.
Amnesty International has confirmed that Israel is using white phosphorus, an unconventional weapon, in its bombardment of southern Lebanon.
Tel Aviv justifies itself by saying that it is destroying shelters used by Hezbollah for its military operations against its residents.
In December last year, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati raised his voice. “Large areas of Lebanon are subject to a regression of environmental conditions due to continuous Israeli attacks,” he warned.
“These actions, including the use of banned white phosphorus weapons killed civilians and caused irreversible damage to more than 5 million square meters of forests and agricultural land, in addition to having damaged thousands of olive trees,” the prime minister added.
The situation is deteriorating as the months go by. The NGO Save the Children even fears a humanitarian crisis affecting tens of thousands of families in southern Lebanon, who were left without livelihoods after Israeli army fire destroyed more than 47,000 olive trees as well as other crops during their harvest.
With eight hundred hectares of land completely devastated, 340,000 head of livestock dead and about 75 percent of farmers destitute, Prime Minister Mikati warns that southern Lebanon risks becoming an “agricultural disaster zone.”This part of Lebanon is famous for the production of citrus fruits, olives and tobacco in particular.It is an area more than 100 kilometers long, stretching from Naqura to Mount Hermon and the hills of Kfar Shuba, and at a depth that exceeds an average of 6 to 7 kilometers.
Since the beginning of the Gaza war, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, Hezbollah has periodically exchanged fire with the Israeli army. Israel believes that the Lebanese resistance movement uses the vegetation cover adjacent to the Lebanese border to conceal its military operations.In addition, Israeli shelling targeted several southern regions, killing two people, including a Hezbollah fighter, and sparking large fires on Saturday.
More than eight months of war have left at least 458 people dead in Lebanon, including some 90 civilians and nearly 300 Hezbollah fighters.
It is absoulutely VITAL that you spread these articles and share them far and wide!!
There will never be ads, nor paywalls on this website and I do this, delivering articles for free, so please donate if you can afford it!
Donations are NOT neccesary in any way, but ALWAYS appreciated.
You can also check my bitchute, rumble, vidlii channels where I reupload videos with juicy info in them.
Stay up to date on gab, gettr, telegram, twitter and minds!
Our spanish readers can also check the podcast, and watch the odysee channel.
elcolectivodeuno.wordpress.com 