Israel destroys solar panels supplying electric and water to Southern Lebanon

Israel has destroyed solar panels which supply electricity to Debel, Lebanon, and power its water station.

Debel is the same Christian village where an Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) soldier destroyed a statue of Jesus, only last week.

Once again, the IOF claims it is investigating — but we all know what it means when Israel ‘investigates’ its own war crimes.

It’s also worth pointing out that the IOF wouldn’t even be pretending to investigate if it were a Muslim village.

No doubt that Israel is about to tell us that the solar panels were Hezbollah infrastructure. Were they using them to charge their phones and play Club Penguin?

Israel — the ethnic cleansing continues

Israel has repeatedly claimed that it does not target civilian infrastructure. Despite this, there is a clear and documented pattern of the IOF flattening railways, schools, hospitals, water desalination plants and electric supplies. Clearly, the IOF is attempting to make it impossible for the people of Gaza, and now Lebanon, to survive.

And there’s a word for that.

Now, Israel is systematically destroying parts of Southern Lebanon, no doubt as part of its goal to create a ‘Greater Israel’.

Israel’s ‘Greater Israel project’ was formally established in 1967. This was only one month after Israel illegally annexed the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War.

According to Middle East Eye:

It is often understood as a vision of territorial expansion to encompass Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, along with significant parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

This tells us that the current attacks on Lebanon are not some new attempt to disarm Hezbollah. They are part of a prolonged and systematic colonial attempt to invade and steal the land.

Ecocide

The IOF has already destroyed 90% of all solar panels in Gaza, leaving the power system in ruins and the people of Gaza with no stable supply of electricity. Now, it is committing similar crimes in Lebanon.

We are already in the middle of a global climate catastrophe; meanwhile, ‘God’s chosen people’ are destroying solar panels?

Israel claims to be a leader in environmental technology, but environmentalism without anti-zionism is simply gardening.

Additionally, what’s the good in claiming to be a leader in environmentalism whilst dropping 200,000 tonnes of explosives filled with toxic fumes on civilians? That’s the equivalent of six Hiroshimas.

Not to mention the continuous use of white phosphorus which unlawful under international law and the huge and lingering environmental impact of it.

By early 2024, Israel had already destroyed a huge part of Gaza’s farmland, wiping out orchards, greenhouses, and crops, which are all vital for survival in Gaza. It had decimated the majority of farms and orchards, with munitions and toxins now contaminating Gaza’s soil and groundwater.

Similarly, seawater is full of sewage and waste because Israel cut off electricity and destroyed water treatment plants.

It is clear that from the start, Israel has used environmental harm as a weapon of control and erasure. Now, it is a core feature of its settler-colonial terrorism.

Systematic destruction

It has become clear that destruction is so deeply embedded in the minds of Israeli’s that they didn’t even think to make use of the solar panels on the land they will no doubt attempt to occupy. So much for an ‘environmental leader’.

We have watched Israel systematically destroy electricity and water supplies throughout Gaza. Now, it’s doing the same in Southern Lebanon. People cannot survive without clean water or power, and that is exactly what the terrorists in Israel are counting on.

The fight for Palestinian and Lebanese freedom is inherently tied to the survival of the Earth and humanity. There cannot be one without the other.

Feature image via Heidi Pett/X

By HG

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