“We will never leave”: Defying Israeli ethnic cleansing in South Lebanon
06 June 2026

“We will never leave”: Defying Israeli ethnic cleansing in South Lebanon

Max Blumenthal

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In his latest on the ground report for The Grayzone, Wyatt Reed travelled to the ancient city of Tyre to document the aftermath of a brutal wave of Israeli strikes on residential buildings and local businesses.Despite Israel’s claims that their attacks target Hezbollah, he found no evidence of militant activity. Instead, he only encountered civilians attempting to rebuild their lives — and, in many cases, refusing to obey a forced evacuation notice imposed by Israeli forces seeking to ethnically cleanse southern Lebanon.



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