Israel Keeps Striking Lebanon After April Ceasefire, With Thousands Killed Since March Offensive
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Updated · Reuters · May 13
Israel Keeps Striking Lebanon After April Ceasefire, With Thousands Killed Since March Offensive
11 articles · Updated · Reuters · May 13
Israel is still carrying out airstrikes across Lebanon despite an April ceasefire, extending a campaign launched in March after Hezbollah fired across the border in support of Iran.
Thousands have been killed in Lebanon, the heaviest toll of any country touched by the wider war, and Israel has demolished villages in the south while holding a buffer zone on Lebanese territory.
That campaign has displaced about a quarter of Lebanon's population at its peak, with some residents returning but large parts of the south still depopulated and under Israeli control.
U.S. and Israeli pressure on Beirut to disarm Hezbollah is rising, a step that could deepen sectarian strains in a country still marked by the 1975-90 civil war.
The Lebanon front is one part of a regional conflict triggered by the Feb. 28 Israeli-U.S. assault on Iran, which has also disrupted Gulf energy exports and shaken Middle East security assumptions.
Why did the initial U.S.-Israeli assault fail to achieve its primary goals against Iran?
With Lebanon shattered and Iran's military empowered, is a wider regional collapse now inevitable?
As Gulf nations pivot from U.S. protection, who will emerge as the new power broker?