Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned last Monday that in his plans there was no way to stop their attacks on Lebanon. The land invasion was “imminent”just as was also the Response from the Iranian regime. Since it was reactivated almost a year ago, the conflict in the Middle Eastmore than 2,000 people have died in Lebanon. Added to this are the tens of thousands of deaths in the Gaza Strip, where the Jewish State persists. massacre its population. Meanwhile the international community looks with fear at a region where bombings have become daily.
Israel and Lebanon’s Shiite militia Hezbollah have been in a crossfire since the start of the war in the Palestinian enclave in October 2023, when Hamas entered the Jewish state and carried out, in various actions, a multitude of kidnappings, as well as murders. However, around ten days ago, the violence reached an unprecedented level. At that point, Israeli forces began a massive bombing campaign which devastated entire towns and villages.
Of course, it is the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, known as Dahye, which has become the target of intense air attacks over the past week. The escalation is such that since the start of hostilities, Israeli attacks have cost the lives of nearly 2,000 people in this Mediterranean countrywhile they forced more than a million people to leave their home. However, it is in recent days that Lebanon has recorded the majority of its deaths.
Both Hezbollah and Hamas belong to the so-called Islamic Resistance to the Occupying Powers led by Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah. Ali Khamenei. It is for this reason that the Iranian regime did not hesitate to express itself last April with a first direct attack like Israel during which it launched a storm of more than 300 projectiles.
But the response was harsher last week after the attack on Beirut. assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. An Iranian response against which the United States had already warned a few hours earlier and which led the Israeli government to call on its population to take refuge.
However, the deaths in Israel do not reach the tragic numbers that come from the Gaza Strip, where Netanyahu’s people have a population totally besieged due to continued attacks. There, the death toll provided daily by the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health rose this Friday to 41,802, to which are added more than 700 dead in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. A figure which does not, however, take into account the bodies which could be found under the rubble, estimated at around 10,000, in the Palestinian enclave alone.
The situation is so delicate that Europe has already made efforts to remedy this situation. expel its citizens from Lebanon either by sea or by air, whether with commercial means or with those of their own armies. In the case of Spain, Defense Minister Margarita Robles announced this week that the army would send two planes to Beirut with the capacity to transport hundreds of people. The United Kingdom, Germany, Bulgaria, Portugal and the Netherlands are also evacuating their nationals who were in this Mediterranean country.
At the same time, the United Nations, the European Union and the member states of both organizations themselves continue their efforts ceasefire demands. However, international eyes are focused on a specific country, the United States, whose president downplayed the subject this Friday, assuring from the White House that “there will be no total war” in the Middle East.
“I don’t think there will be an all-out war. I think we can avoid it. But there’s still a lot to do, a lot,” he told reporters at the White House when asked him if he was sure that an all-out war could be avoided in the region. As for whether he would send American troops to help Israel, he said he had “already” helped them: “We will protect Israel”he remarked.
