Today is the 356th day of the Gaza war. On October 8, Israel started military action in Gaza against Hamas attacks. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 41 thousand people have died in Israeli attacks that have been going on for about a year. Many top Hamas leaders, including Hamas Chief Ismail Haniya and Al Qassam Brigade Chief Mohammad Daif, have been killed. In such a situation, Israel has started a war on another front as well. Israeli army airstrikes have been going on in Lebanon since last Monday (September 23), more than 700 people have been killed in these attacks so far.
Israel says that it is targeting Hezbollah's bases in Lebanon, but there is so little time between the warning given before the attacks and the airstrike that it is not easy for people to leave their homes and reach safe places. This is the reason why the common citizens of Lebanon are suffering more damage than Hezbollah in Israeli attacks.
Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is fighting a war on two fronts, says that about 60 thousand Jews have been displaced from Northern Israel due to Hezbollah's attacks. A few days before the Israeli strike on Lebanon, he had said that resettling these Jews in North Israel was one of his war aims. A few days after this statement by Netanyahu, the Israeli army started heavy bombing in Lebanon.
In the first 3 days of the war, the IDF claimed to have targeted more than 2,000 Hezbollah targets. According to Al-Jazeera's report, Israel carried out 1600 attacks on the southern Lebanon border on Thursday alone. In the latest attack, 9 members of a family were killed overnight in Lebanon's Sheba city, including 4 children. According to Lebanon's national news agency, the family was sleeping in their storeyed house in the Southeastern area when an airstrike hit their house at night.
So far more than 700 people have died in these attacks in Lebanon, while more than 1 lakh 9 thousand people have been displaced. However, it is believed that the actual number of displaced people could be much more than this.
People were forced to leave their homes amid Israeli attacks. (Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images)
That means twice as many Lebanese citizens have had to leave their homes due to this war as the 60,000 Jews for whom Israel is dropping bombs on Lebanon to settle. UN's refugee agency UNHCR has expressed concern over the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon. According to the agency, Israeli air strikes have destroyed the lives of Lebanese citizens, and thousands of families are having to flee to Syria.
