Is Israel reshaping Lebanon, trying to separate Hezbollah from its people?
Al Jazeera
Analysts say Israel’s actions in Lebanon, including mass displacement, are an effort to reshape the country.
Beirut, Lebanon – In the past week, the Israeli military has created a mass displacement crisis, killed around 400 people, rained bombs down across Lebanon, including the capital Beirut, and pushed its troops even further into the southern part of the embattled country.
Israel is defining a new reality in Lebanon, analysts told Al Jazeera, with potential long-term consequences that could reshape the country in ways unlike the 2024 war, and the 2006 conflict before that, which also featured forced mass exoduses and displacement, widespread killing, and what experts called the urbicide of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
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