Destroy, displace, dismantle: Israel’s Gaza doctrine comes to Lebanon
The strategy used to depopulate Gaza – displacement, destruction and fragmentation – is now being deployed on Lebanon.

Israel has created an environment of impunity for attacks on healthcare that has spread well beyond Gaza’s borders.

The strategy used to depopulate Gaza – displacement, destruction and fragmentation – is now being deployed on Lebanon.

Years of US and Israeli pressure pushed Tehran from calibrated restraint to open regional confrontation.

Israel suggests those seeking to enforce international law on Gaza will meet the fate of a destroyed Iranian warship.
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Gaza has exposed the limits of US power and opened space for new centres of global diplomacy.

It is tapping into a well-known colonial strategy of isolating and fragmenting an occupied population.
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MSF aims always to work with the agreement of all parties to a conflict.
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No humanitarian assistance can relieve Palestinian suffering, only the end of the Israeli occupation and apartheid can.
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The UNSC is allowing cities to be flattened and civilians mercilessly killed under the guise of ‘fighting terror’.
