Beirut’s Ceasefire Shattered: Flames and Fury

 

A plume of acrid smoke cloaks Beirut’s southern suburbs—Israeli jets breach November’s truce, igniting Dahiyeh in a spectacle of shattered glass and geopolitical rupture.  

Lebanese President Aoun condemns the strike as “calculated barbarism,” demanding US-French accountability. Evacuation warnings, red-marked maps—premeditated choreography masking Gaza-style collective punishment on Hezbollah’s heartland.  

Halta’s farmer, a civilian casualty, lies entombed in rubble—a microcosm of Lebanon’s fraying patience. Fifty-three truce violations since November scream systemic impunity.  

Beneath Gaza’s shadow, Beirut burns. Analysts decode Netanyahu’s gambit: distract from Rafah or prelude to northern invasion? Hezbollah’s silence—a storm gathering in rhetorical subterfuge.