The southern suburbs of Beirut under Israeli fire, March 6. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour)
Is the "Dahiyeh Doctrine" making a comeback? On Thursday, the spokesman for the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, called on all residents of the southern suburb of Beirut — a densely populated area and a Hezbollah stronghold — to evacuate. This forced displacement, affecting hundreds of thousands of people, raises fears of a return to this doctrine, implemented by the Israeli army during the July 2006 war against Hezbollah.The strategy consists of carrying out heavy air bombardments on public infrastructure, especially in Dahiyeh (the southern suburb in Arabic), making the area uninhabitable with the goal of terrorizing the population and turning it against Hezbollah so that the group bends.In 2024, Israel used a similar strategy in the Gaza Strip during the war against Hamas — only much more intensely, to the point of being...
Is the "Dahiyeh Doctrine" making a comeback? On Thursday, the spokesman for the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, called on all residents of the southern suburb of Beirut — a densely populated area and a Hezbollah stronghold — to evacuate. This forced displacement, affecting hundreds of thousands of people, raises fears of a return to this doctrine, implemented by the Israeli army during the July 2006 war against Hezbollah.The strategy consists of carrying out heavy air bombardments on public infrastructure, especially in Dahiyeh (the southern suburb in Arabic), making the area uninhabitable with the goal of terrorizing the population and turning it against Hezbollah so that the group bends.In 2024, Israel used a similar strategy in the Gaza Strip during the war against Hamas — only much more intensely, to the point of...
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