[News] 'Israel' committing ‘domicide’ in Lebanon

[Anti-Imperialist News]

english.almayadeen.net
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel--committing--domicide--in-lebanon--un-rapporteur>
'Israel' committing ‘domicide’ in Lebanon: UN rapporteur
Al Mayadeen English - September 28, 2024
------------------------------

The Israeli occupation claims to be targeting the so-called "headquarters"
and "command centers" of the Lebanese Resistance to destroy residential
buildings and civilian areas in the Southern Suburb of Beirut.
[image: 7e087556-238f-46f5-a0fe-7f23f17f5e37.png]

   - Smoke rises from the rubble as people gather at the scene of Israeli
   airstrikes in Beirut's Southern Suburb on September 27, 2024. (*AFP*)

The Israeli occupation is committing "domicide" in Lebanon by
indiscriminately destroying civilian structures, according to the United
Nations expert on the right to adequate housing.

Balakrishnan Rajagopal decried the Israeli regime's renewed airstrikes on
residential structures in Beirut's southern suburbs in a post on X.

Official estimates show that the horrific bombs killed at least 8
individuals and wounded many more. However, the exact number of casualties
is unknown since hundreds of people remain under the rubble.

"Erasing entire residential blocks is neither precise, proportional - and
since no one knows if the target was plausibly a military one - likely to
be unnecessary," Rajagopal pointed out.

The Israeli occupation again claims to be targeting the "headquarters" and
"command centers" of the Lebanese Resistance - Hezbollah, but the movement
denied the allegations.

Rajagopal stated that the Israeli regime destroys residential structures in
Lebanon "with no limits."

“IHL (international humanitarian law) doesn’t exist. Jus in bello is a
joke. ESC (economic, social and cultural) rights can be violated with total
impunity. And global south is fair game at any time,”  he stated, adding
that "this is the world we live in."

After displacing tens of thousands of civilians from South Lebanon,
"Israel" relentlessly bombed the Southern Suburb of Beirut.

This comes as the Israeli occupation escalated its widespread aggression
against Lebanon,
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/fearing-hezbollah-fire--iof-bans-gatherings-of-over-1-000-se>
launching indiscriminate attacks on multiple regions and villages in the
Bekaa Valley, the South, and Mount Lebanon, following a night of intense
shelling that reverberated through the Southern Suburb of Beirut.

In the latest wave of attacks, the occupation conducted a series of raids
targeting Baalbek and its surrounding areas, as well as the vicinity of
Hermel, according to reports from *Al Mayadeen*'s correspondent in northern
Bekaa.

"Israel" launched massive strikes on Friday, targeting residential
neighborhoods in the Southern Suburb of Beirut.

Six buildings were razed to the ground as a result of the Israeli
aggression, as Israeli media reported that 2,000 tons of explosives were
dropped on the neighborhood of Haret Hreik in the assault.

The IOF announced that the goal of the attack was the assassination of
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/sayyed-khamenei--sayyed-nasrallah-s-blood-will-not-go-in-vai>,
and Israeli *Army Radio *pointed out that F-35 aircraft carried out the
airstrikes using bunker-buster bombs.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://freedomarchives.org/pipermail/news_freedomarchives.org/attachments/20240928/7b86ca7d/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 7e087556-238f-46f5-a0fe-7f23f17f5e37.png
Type: image/png
Size: 631030 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://freedomarchives.org/pipermail/news_freedomarchives.org/attachments/20240928/7b86ca7d/attachment-0001.png>