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Israel/Palestine Israel's Netanyahu orders attacks in Beirut's southern suburbs

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-ordered-military-attack-targets-beirut-southern-suburbs-2026-06-01/
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u/Oreos_Are_Anabolic 4h ago

Summary:

  • Netanyahu ordered Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs (Dahiyeh), citing repeated Hezbollah violations of a ceasefire and attacks on Israeli cities.

  • Iran said Israeli attacks in Lebanon are one reason diplomacy aimed at ending the U.S.-Iran war has been delayed, and reiterated that a Lebanon ceasefire is essential to any agreement.

  • Israel had largely refrained from striking Dahiyeh since a U.S.-announced Lebanon ceasefire on April 16, carrying out only two previous attacks there.

  • The move follows intensified fighting in southern Lebanon, including Israeli forces capturing the 900-year-old Beaufort Castle and expanding ground operations.

  • Lebanese authorities say more than 3,370 people have been killed in Lebanon since March 2, when Hezbollah began attacks in support of Iran.

  • Israel says 24 soldiers and four civilians have been killed during the same period.

  • Israel has established a security zone in southern Lebanon and says it is destroying villages to protect northern Israel from Hezbollah militants.

  • The conflict has displaced more than 1 million people, according to Lebanese authorities.

  • Netanyahu said Israel aims to deepen and expand its control over areas previously under Hezbollah influence.

  • Hezbollah accused Israel of violating the ceasefire and said it conducted 21 operations on Sunday, including rocket attacks targeting Israeli military infrastructure near Nahariya.

  • France called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council because of the escalating violence.

  • The U.S. has been mediating talks between Israel and Lebanon despite Hezbollah’s objections.

  • A Lebanese source said Netanyahu’s announcement reflects a deterioration in the U.S.-led diplomatic process.

  • U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently spoke with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Netanyahu and proposed a plan for gradual de-escalation.

  • Under the U.S. proposal, Hezbollah would halt attacks on Israel and Israel would refrain from escalating attacks in Beirut.

  • President Aoun attempted to advance the proposal and secure agreement from both sides.

  • Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said he could guarantee Hezbollah’s immediate compliance with a ceasefire but questioned who would ensure Israel stopped its military actions.

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u/HighlyInconvenient 2h ago

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said he could guarantee Hezbollah’s immediate compliance with a ceasefire but questioned who would ensure Israel stopped its military actions.

These are not serious people.

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u/FlukemanFrancis 3h ago

There’s no reasonable end to this is there, it’s just going to keep spinning round until something truly horrific happens - beyond the usual nightmare that is this awful ethnic/religious mess of hatred and death

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u/Available_Finger_513 3h ago

Barak Ravid currently typing up an article about how we are mere seconds away from an end to the hostilities in the middle east.

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u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245 2h ago

Fuck Barak Ravid, that lying POS

u/Available_Finger_513 1h ago

Please dont. We dont want people like him reproducing

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u/ErenYaegersAbss 2h ago

Israel has killed thousands of children, babies less than a year / day old and none of that outraged the western governments.

The only thing that will be a line crossed will be if they kill white people.

Which is why they're so quick to apologize whenever someone assaults a christian in Israel.

Brown and muslim lives aren't worth anything according to the western governments.

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u/Cerex1 1h ago

Oh please enough with this dumb race bullshit

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u/ErenYaegersAbss 1h ago

Yeah sure, convince me otherwise then.

The only times people have been brought to semi justice has been in those instances I just told yoi about.

There's a reason why the illegal settlements and the settlers aren't being targeted and put to a stop by the israeli government.

u/subtle_bullshit 36m ago

You should tell Israel first. They’ve been oppressing Arabs ever since they occupied their land almost a hundred years ago.

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u/JMTolan 3h ago

Oh there's plenty of reasonable ends to this, it's just that most of them involve Trump admitting he made a mistake or accepting a new reality that's worse than the previous one, so we're stuck between endless circles of violence and Trump's ego.

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u/yonkapin 3h ago

Netanyah is a dickhead

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u/Cerex1 3h ago

Yeah but there has to be a response, IDF soldiers die to suicide drones every day, that was swallowed by the government, but now with rockets flying to Haifa the government has to attack

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u/bummerdeal 2h ago

Maybe they should go home?

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u/Cerex1 2h ago

I'm sure they'd love to, but giving Hezbollah free reign dooms the entire north of the country

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u/bummerdeal 1h ago

If their social media presence is any indication, they certainly seem eager to maintain a murderous rampage across Lebanon. Suggesting this is some kind of reluctant struggle for them is comical. Hezbollah doesn't have free reign, but I know you know that.

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u/Cerex1 1h ago

It doesn't because the IDF is present, if it wasn't we'd be back to the pre oct7 status quo where they dig underground cities and plan radwan force invasions. This is naive

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u/Fancy_Composer_5641 2h ago

Maybe the terrorists could stop attacking Israeli soil?

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u/Art_Vandelay_IMP_EXP 1h ago

The terrorists are in Israeli soil, quite literally attacking everyone else

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u/bummerdeal 2h ago

Nobody buys this anymore. You lost.

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u/DDoubleDDog 1h ago

False. You don't speak for everyone.

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u/DDoubleDDog 1h ago

They can't. They have to defend Israeli civilians from the rocket and drone attacks being launched by Hezbollah.

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u/GeeGeeMachine 1h ago

by invading Beiruit? lmfao

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u/DDoubleDDog 1h ago

Yes, Hezbollah's headquarters is in Beirut's southern suburbs.

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u/Binderella123 2h ago

Hmm. Were Israeli soldiers previously dying to suicide drones? I mean they've been available the last few years no?

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u/threeme2189 2h ago

No, Israeli civilians were being bombed instead. Better?

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u/Binderella123 2h ago

Nobody should be bombed I think. But I don't think invading another country is going to solve anything. If anything, it will make radicals even more radical and the children whose parents/family are being killed are going to want someone to pay. Netanyahu is only exacerbating the situation. Proper talks solve issues, not war.

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u/Fancy_Composer_5641 2h ago

Explain how people who believe they’ll be rewarded with a harem of virgins if they suicide bomb some Jews could be any further radicalized

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u/Binderella123 2h ago

Explain how Ben Gvir's settler mates who steal Palestinian land could be any further radicalised? Two faces of the same coin.

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u/Cerex1 1h ago

This is a very recent adaptation, the drones before were cell operated, internet operated. These ones are fiber optic based so they can't be tracked in time, it's very much like early Russia / Ukraine

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u/DDoubleDDog 1h ago

Beirut's southern suburbs is Hezbollah's stronghold.

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u/Waymannj 3h ago edited 3h ago

If Lebanon wants a fight with Israel then so be it, but get Hezbollah and Iran out of there. This proxy war garbage puts Lebanon in the crossfire.

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u/JMTolan 3h ago

Accidentally double-posted the comment, FYI.