LEBANON
Hezbollah, a pro-Iranian Shiite group, has been launching drones, rockets and anti-tank missiles into northern Israel since early March in solidarity with Iran. 18 Israeli soldiers and 2 civilians have been killed. In retaliation Israel has flattened at least two dozen towns in south Lebanon and has established a several-mile-deep buffer zone which it says it will continue to occupy until the threat from Hezbollah has been eliminated. 2,700 Lebanese have been killed and a million displaced. Israeli officials have said they are modeling their campaign against Lebanon after what Israel has done in Gaza.
Basically then what is taking place in Lebanon is a smaller-scale Gaza. The disproportionate death and destruction are similar. Israel thinks that by bombing Lebanese Shiites or Gaza Palestinians that it will kill the idea of resistance. Explosives will not kill an idea: they may even spread the idea.
Source: The New York Times, 5/10/26