Israeli escalation in Lebanon: 30 deaths in 72 hours, families exterminated and new military infrastructures

The military escalation long announced by Israel against the civilian and military strongholds of Hezbollah, the armed resistance party supported by Iran, today shows its bloodiest and most visible edge in the formal context of an increasingly evanescent "ceasefire": around 30 people killed in 72 hours in southern Lebanon, including newborns, rescuers and fighters from the Party of God.

Meanwhile, new Israeli military roads and embankments appear on the ground, a sign, according to Lebanese analysts, of the Jewish State's desire to remain as an occupying force in southern Lebanon for a long time.

Israel justifies the intensification of the raids as a response to Hezbollah attacks: against Israeli soldiers who are however located in the heart of Lebanese territory and who with their own action are violating the ceasefire.

The escalation is taking place a few weeks after the expected new negotiations in Rome, mediated by Washington between Beirut and Israel, and in the context of growing regional tension between the American and Iranian fronts that extends from Hormuz to Bab al-Mandab. In this context, an entire family was exterminated at dawn in Kfar Remman, in the Nabatiye district, the heart of the clashes for the control of strategic heights in the depths of southern Lebanon.

Among the eight victims of the Farhat family, two newborns and two women. Hezbollah admits that two of its members were among those killed. In the same raid two rescuers lost their lives, with a death toll of 10. In the bombings from Friday to today, a total of 27 people were killed and dozens injured.

According to Beirut's health ministry, since the start of the new round of war on March 2, Israel has killed 4,381 people in Lebanon and wounded 12,402. For its part, Israel says the raid on Kfar Remman hit Hezbollah infrastructure "in response to drone launches" against its forces in southern Lebanon.

And he reports the wounding of two of his soldiers in a shootout with Lebanese fighters in the area of ​​Beaufort Castle. The increasingly tense context has pushed Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to define Israeli attacks as "unacceptable crimes" and to state that "if Israel wants war... let it say so clearly".

As a further sign of the deterioration of the situation, the Israeli army has alerted the inhabitants of the Northern Galilee of a series of imminent attacks on Lebanese territory whose explosions could also be heard on Israeli territory. In this context, Lebanese civil society has once again mobilized on two opposing fronts: on the one hand, to ask for the deployment of the regular army in Nabatiye and the withdrawal and disarmament of Hezbollah "to save Nabatiye"; on the other, through the mayors of the occupied southern localities, historically identified with the resistance of the Party of God, who protest against the Beirut government, accused of not doing enough to prevent Israel from destroying over 60 localities in southern Lebanon, thus hindering its long-term return.