Israel’s ‘limited’ campaign in Lebanon is expanding
Reporting from Hasbaiyya, Lebanon
Two sets of evacuation orders have been issued. This is the first time that this has happened in the Bekaa Valley.
Now, when those evacuation orders were issued, it wasn’t long after that the airstrikes came in, so that’s likely to be connected.
This is getting people worried because on September 29th, Israel said that it was going to mount a limited ground invasion into Lebanese territory.
Now, they have been doing that on the border, but the aerial campaign is getting wider and wider.
Some 32 percent now of the south, just where I am, is under Israeli evacuation orders.
The attack on Bekaa now adds to that, and it’s in the east of Lebanon.
In total, some eight percent of Lebanese territory is now under those Israeli evacuation orders, which is concerning to many Lebanese people.
But we’re now hearing from politicians about what they think the definition of Israel’s saying, using the word limited, actually is.
What is that definition? No one seems to know what limited means for the Israelis.
These were the updates on Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and war on Gaza for Thursday, October 17.
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505,483 students and 45,440 teachers are from the areas affected by the Israeli aggression.
The ministry reported that 40% of the technical and vocational education students are from areas that have been directly targeted, as well as 57% of the #LebaneseUniversity students and 32% of students in private higher education institutions.
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