Israels Gaza Doctrine Spreads to Lebanon with Strict New Rules

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Israel’s Strategy in Lebanon: A Replication of Gaza Doctrine

In less than two weeks, Israel has killed nearly 600 people and displaced over 750,000 civilians in Lebanon. This development marks the application of Israel’s strategy in Gaza to a new front. The approach involves displacing civilians by ordering them to leave or destroying their means of survival, demolishing civilian infrastructure to prevent return, and fragmenting governance through the creation of disconnected enclaves.

The author, who spent three years working in Palestine before being expelled by Israeli authorities, has witnessed this doctrine develop firsthand. Now, from Beirut, they are witnessing its replication in Lebanon. Israel’s strategy in Gaza was applied with greater speed and fury, including a complete siege on the territory and the forced evacuation of civilians to designated areas.

In both Gaza and southern Lebanon, Israel has treated civilian populations as indistinguishable from the resistance they support. The goal is not to pacify territory but to empty it. The collapse of their political representation is also a condition Israel seeks to make permanent.

This approach is consistent with settler-colonial logic in contemporary military form. In Gaza, Israel abandoned its previous aspiration to install a sympathetic government and instead sought to ensure that no coherent governance exists at all. A similar approach has been adopted by the UAE in Yemen and the Horn of Africa, as well as its support for Israel in Gaza.

Israel has issued evacuation orders for the entirety of southern Lebanon and southern Beirut, with announced zones failing to match those shown on maps. Those who crossed the invisible lines were killed. Hundreds of thousands of people are now on the move, with schools becoming shelters and health workers being targeted. The Lebanese government has been threatened by Israel if it fails to act against Hezbollah, with its aims extending from displacement and infrastructure destruction towards the forced destabilization of the state itself.

The situation in Lebanon is developing rapidly, with civilians facing significant challenges and uncertainty.

Source: Al Jazeera