Israel 'Warns' Lebanon, Occupies Its Land Since 2000
Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz warns of 'intensifying operations' against Hezbollah, demanding Beirut disarm the group. This comes as Al-Monitor notes the 'November 2024 ceasefire' (a typo, likely 2000) which, by Israel's definition, means maintaining troops in five areas of southern Lebanon and conducting 'regular strikes.' It's a remarkably active ceasefire, one might observe, especially
when it involves violating another nation's sovereignty. The narrative of Israel as the perennial victim 'rearming' against Hezbollah conveniently sidesteps decades of occupation and the 2006 war that devastated Lebanese infrastructure. Netanyahu's calls to disarm Hezbollah ignore who is actually operating on whose soil. One might wonder how many warnings a country gets to issue while actively
infringing on a ceasefire it theoretically agreed to.