“Lebanon is not alone.”

Mourners were massacred at a graveside in Shmestar. Three girls were murdered in the coastal town of Adloun. Beirut’s residential districts were struck without warning at rush hour.

For over a year and half the “international community” has remained silent on the continued bombing of southern Lebanon.

This is a terrifying symptom of the ongoing normalization of Israel’s genocidal actions across the region at large.

This cowardly act of premeditated aggression is merely the next chapter in decades of Israel’s invasions, massacres, and bombing campaigns across Lebanon.

In recent months alone, Israel has displaced 1.2 million Lebanese, nearly one in five of the entire population.

Meanwhile, Israeli officials announce without shame their intention to establish a permanent occupation in the south of the country.

Israel’s lethal aggression in Lebanon cannot be understood in isolation. It is part of a broader scorched earth campaign to establish Greater Israel and suffocate the forces of resistance that stand in its way — be they in Gaza, Beirut or Tehran.

These are wars waged with US weapons, protected by US vetoes, and conducted under the cover of a rules-based international order whose rules, it turns out, apply to everyone but Israel and its patron.

From the Cabinet of the Progressive International, we not only condemn the senseless slaughter in Lebanon, as in Palestine or Iran. We also defend Lebanon’s enduring right to resist and defend itself against Israel’s foreign aggression. A people subjected to repeated invasion does not owe its occupier forbearance.