Iranian سونر

The Israeli forces have recently announced that they will up the ante and produce more severe attacks against Lebanon. While this comment has been made by the IDF on an almost daily basis since it began its 'defense' almost a month ago, one comment definitely stands out:

'Other than bombing the Beirut airport to prevent arms transfers to Hezbollah, Israel has hitherto not targeted Lebanon's infrastructure, insisting that it is only at war with Hezbollah, not with the Lebanese government or people. However, the officer said, "we are now in a process of renewed escalation. We will continue hitting everything that moves in Hezbollah - but we will also hit strategic civilian infrastructure."'

While it is no surprise that Israel blindly targets civilians, as you may have noticed in the massacres at Qana and the food storage factory in the Bekaa Valley, there is something different about this.

Before, Israel would go on and hit whatever it felt like hitting. A 10-month-old sleeping in his crib? No problem (Hey, he could have had Katyushas under his pillow. Better safe than sorry, right?). But it would never blatantly say that its target were civilians and would be very quick to put out an apology for the 'loss of life' (this was usually followed up by a justification for this 'loss of life').

However what we see now is a clear message that they are going after civilian targets. Not that they havent done it before...but before was different. Before they tried to hide it under the rug and say they were only going after Hezbollah. Now they're not saying that anymore.

If they were able to inflict so many casualties on civilians while they were under guise, imagine the atrocities they are capable of committing now that civilians are fair game to them.