Over 1 Million Flee 'Total Destruction' in Lebanon, With Cease-Fire Demanded

Edward Carver

October 4, 2024

About 1.2 million people have been displaced as Israeli forces have surged into southern Lebanon and undertaken a bombing campaign in multiple parts of the country, including in and around Beirut, leaving many people out in the street, with shelters mostly full as of Friday.

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a neighborhood in a suburb of Beirut on October 3, 2024. (Photo: Fadel Itani/AFP via Getty Images)

They lie. They cheat. They steal. They bomb. And they spin

Pepe Escobar

October 4, 2024

A case could be made that Iran’s Ballistic Retaliation Night, a measured response to Israel’s serial provocations, is less consequential when it comes to the efficacy of the Axis of Resistance than the decapitation of Hezbollah’s leadership.