Is Hezbollah Beating Israel in Lebanon? (w/ Laith Marouf) | The Chris Hedges Report

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[on-hold music] Israel, without warning, launched Operation Eternal Darkness on April 8th against Lebanon. In the span of ten minutes, Israel hit more than one hundred sites across the country, killing more than three hundred people and wounding over one thousand. This act of state terror took place as the regional ceasefire, agreed to by Iran and the United States, took effect. Israel carried out a Gaza-like obliteration of villages in southern Lebanon, driving one million people, a fifth of the Lebanese population, from their homes. The current ceasefire, declared on April sixteenth, is likely to prove as elusive as all previous ceasefires. Israel has not ceased its bombing campaign in the south and its random bombing attacks in Beirut, even during this ceasefire. Ceasefires mean nothing to Israel, which has threatened to resume the attacks on Iran with or without the United States. In the seven months following the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon in November twenty-twenty-four, Israel continued to occupy territory in southern Lebanon and pound Lebanon with airstrikes, killing at least two hundred and fifty people. Israel's goal is to turn Lebanon, like Syria, into a failed state and set the weak Lebanese military against Hezbollah, precipitating a civil war. This objective