“Hamas has got to go,” #Netanyahu said.
#Israel seeks a demilitarized & deradicalized #Gaza, he stressed.

The #hostages must be returned to their families, he said.

Speaking of #Hezbollah, he said the group has murdered the citizens of many countries & attacked Israel unprovoked.

“Enough is enough. We won’t rest until our citizens can return safely to their homes. We will not accept a terror army perched on our northern border, able to perpetrate another Oct 7-style massacre,” he said.

#UNGA

BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨🚨

The IDF is now bombing at least 14 villages in southern Lebanon.

The residents continue to flee.

The death count continues to rise.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas #iran #hezbollah #Lebanon #BreakingNews #Breaking

"When you realize that there are only two peaces possible in this case or any other: everyone agreeing to forget, or so many people being dead that there is no one left to remember, then you realize that it is not a question of who did what to whom first. It is that the most unforgiveable thing is the next unforgettable one."

#Israel #Mossad #Lebanon #Hezbollah
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"As with all things in this conflict, to criticize the latest act of unforgettable violence is always to provoke the rejoinder: this is but a retaliation for the last one. We did not start this, but we will finish it."

~ Timothy Burke

#Israel #Mossad #Lebanon #Hezbollah
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https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/the-news-unforgettable-in-every-way

The News: Unforgettable In Every Way

Wednesday's Child is Full of Woe

^{Timothy Burke (Eight by Seven)}

"People across Lebanon were hit with a second round of handheld device explosions on Wednesday, wounding over 450 people as hospitals are already overwhelmed with the scores of people injured across the country in a similar attack orchestrated by Israel the day before.

At least 14 people were killed by a wave of walkie talkie explosions, according to an initial count by Lebanon’s health ministry shortly after the attack."

~ Sharon Zhang

#Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah
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https://truthout.org/articles/450-wounded-14-dead-after-lebanon-hit-with-second-wave-of-device-explosions/

700 Wounded, 25 Dead After Lebanon Hit With Second Wave of Device Explosions

The attacks, which humanitarian groups noted are likely war crimes, are an escalation by Israel.

^{Sharon Zhang (Truthout)}

"Instead, the attack has been branded indiscriminate in Europe and elsewhere because, inevitably, not every Hezbollah operative was alone when their pager exploded – some were close to civilians, including children – and because the fear it’s left behind in Lebanon does not discriminate. Ordinary people doing ordinary things in Beirut or Sidon now contend with a new anxiety, nervous around anyone with an electronic device who might just be a member of Hezbollah."

#Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah
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"They probably thought the world would applaud. The Israeli planners behind one of the most spectacular intelligence actions in the country’s history – targeting thousands of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon and beyond by exploding the pagers in their pockets – would certainly have expected an ovation for the sheer audaciousness of it."

~Jonathan Freedland

#Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #pagers
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/20/pager-bombing-hezbollah-israel-safer-diplomacy

The pager bombing of Hezbollah was jaw-dropping. Will it make Israel safer? Not for long

Reliance on military prowess has become a way of avoiding the path the country must now take: diplomacy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

^{Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian)}

"It was not purely the scale of the attack – substantial though it was – that caused shock and disbelief among the Lebanese, but the pervasiveness of it. Doctors tossed away their pagers, wedding planners dispensed with their walkie-talkies, and parents disconnected their baby monitors."

~ Naji Bakhti

#Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #pagers
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/20/device-bombs-beirut-lebanon-israel-hezbollah

The device bombs were in our living rooms, in our pockets, in our faces. Beirut is terrified

The impact of the latest outrage in Lebanon is devastating for the citizens of a country caught between Israel and Hezbollah, says author Naji Bakhti

^{Naji Bakhti (The Guardian)}

"You have the shock of Tuesday, when all of these pagers exploded, killing 12 people, injuring close to 3,000, and then, yesterday, more explosions in walkie-talkies and not clear what other electronic devices. The total, 37 dead, what, something like 3,500 people injured."

~ Amy Goodman

#Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #pagers
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https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/19/lebanon

Lebanon: 37 Dead, 3,400+ Injured in Wave of Explosions in Electronic Devices Booby-Trapped by Israel

We get an update from Beirut, after at least 20 people were killed and 450 others wounded in Lebanon on Wednesday when walkie-talkie radios across the country exploded without warning, the second day of an apparent Israeli operation targeting Hezboll…

^{Democracy Now!}

First legal view I’ve seen on the pager attacks:

“Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of law and international peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, said booby-traps are banned under international law. “Weaponizing an object used by civilians is strictly prohibited,” she said.”

https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah-syria-ce6af3c2e6de0a0dddfae48634278288

#Lebanon #Pagers #hezbollah #Israel

Second wave of explosions hits Lebanon a day after pager attack

Israel's defense minister declares a “new phase” of war as Hezbollah officials and Lebanon's state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices.

^{JOHNSON LAI (AP News)}