Just over a week after Israel announced the cancellation of its ceasefire agreement with Hamas and resumed military operations both in the air and on the ground in Gaza, the war has once again extended deep into yet another country, Lebanon, with Israeli forces launching multiple drone and air strikes that reached the suburbs of Beirut, forcing mass last-minute evacuations.
Though Israel reached a ceasefire agreement with Lebanon-based Hezbollah in November of 2024, the Jewish state has continued to launch air and drone strikes on Lebanese targets, with these strikes recently heating up in the country’s south, killing dozens of civilians.
Now, Lebanon’s Prime Minister is warning that the country is on the verge of a “new war” with its Israeli neighbors.
In this story’s latest chapter, Reuters reported on March 28th that “Israel carried out a limited strike on a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs after issuing an evacuation warning for the area, the first such warning since a November ceasefire agreement between Israel and armed group Hezbollah.”
The strikes on Lebanon come at the same time that Israel rapidly ramps back up its activities in Gaza, where ground troops are once again on the move and where airstrikes have pummeled civilian and humanitarian targets ranging from cancer hospitals, to tent cities, to soup kitchens.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, nearly 1,000 people have been killed since Israel resumed hostilities, with more than half of that number being comprised of women and children.
All told, since the war began in October of 2023, more than 50,000 Palestinians have been officially killed in Gaza, though that number is believed to be far higher in reality, with the remains of countless untold Palestinians resting in the piles of twisted steel and debris that now line the Gazan landscape.
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A landscape that soon, may be under total Israeli control, if the plans laid by the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are to come to fruition.
While Israel and the Netanyahu government have asserted repeatedly over the past year and a half that they do not seek to annex Palestinian territory, Netanyahu has now become fairly public about his plans to do exactly that.
Just this week, Netanyahu was quoted by the Israeli press as saying that Israel’s Gazan battle plans “include the seizure of territories, along with other measures I will not elaborate here.”
The remarks from Netanyahu are just the latest to raise eyebrows as it related to the expansion of Israeli land claims and they come on the heels of a recent report from The Stew Peters Network documenting the American “conservative” movement’s endorsement of exactly that.
As reported by The Stew Peters Network:
At their 2025 annual gathering in National Harbor, Maryland, CPAC approved what’s been described as a modern-day Balfour Declaration, asserting what they claim is Jewish sovereignty over the West Bank, one of the two territories which, alongside Gaza, makes up the modern-day State of Palestine. The West Bank is currently the home of nearly 3 million Palestinians.
CPAC’s modern-day Balfour Declaration was pushed into the agenda by members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, as well as by zionist expansionist radicals with the Yesha Council, an Israel-based organization that unites the municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. These settlements, however, are illegal under international law and their construction routinely involves the seizure of Palestinian homes and the expulsion or even murder of their residents.
Nevertheless, according to CPAC and its Israeli partners, “all these areas are integral parts of Israel, and the United States of America and her allies should recognize Israeli sovereignty over these lands.”
Notably, Israel has already seized Syrian territory in the aftermath of that country’s December 2024 governmental collapse.
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