Having already killed more than a thousand Lebanese, Israel is seeking to permanently depopulate a large swath of southern Lebanon.
Please email foreign minister Anand to denounce Israel’s genocide in Lebanon and to call on Ottawa to stop undercutting Lebanon’s legitimate resistance to the ‘Greater Israel’ project.
Israel is now committing a second genocide. It is seeking to permanently depopulate a large swath of southern Lebanon, ordering the evacuation of all Lebanese south of the Litani River. On Sunday Defence Minister Israel Katz said the IOF will “accelerate the destruction of Lebanese homes in the line of contact villages, to thwart threats to Israeli communities, in accordance with the model of Beit Hanoun and Rafah,” which are cities in Gaza that were largely flattened.
Since the start of the month Israel has killed over a thousand Lebanese and destroyed large swaths of Beirut. Before Hezbollah launched a half dozen rockets in response to the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Israel violated the fifteen month ‘ceasefire’ 10,000 times, killing 300 Lebanese, according to the UN mission in Lebanon.
As they seek to ethnically cleanse southern Lebanon, Israeli officials and commentators are openly calling to settle Jewish colonists there. Some see the war on Iran as an opportunity to extend Israel’s northern border to Lebanon’s Litani River. A member of the Israeli government Zvi Sukkot declared, “We must conquer territory in southern Lebanon, destroy the villages there and annex the territory to the state of Israel.”
As part of an effort to further subordinate Lebanon to US and Israeli dictates, the Canadian Training and Assistance Team-Lebanon has bolstered the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) as a counterweight to Hezbollah. LAF receives about half its budget from the US and has received tens of millions of dollars in Canadian support
Ottawa must denounce the genocide in Lebanon. Canada should also stop intervening politically and military in Lebanon to undercut legitimate resistance to the “Greater Israel” project. Hezbollah should be removed from Canada’s terror list. From Lebanon to Gaza, the West Bank to Iran, it is Israel that is terrorizing the region.
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