it is said that when rome defeated a north african opponent they killed everyone, destroyed all structures and salted the earth. i'm thinking this is the zionist intention everywhere they go; 

 

As airstrikes pound southern Lebanon, lawyer Abbas Ghandour leaves his case files behind, changes clothes, and drives south toward the blast zones. 

The 38-year-old appellate attorney is also the head of the Lebanese Red Cross emergency services in the southwest, a role he has grown into since first answering distress calls as a teenager in Nabatiyeh. 

Now his mornings are no longer spent preparing arguments in court, but securing safe staging points and making sure his paramedics’ families have somewhere to sleep, because, as he puts it, “no one can respond clearly while worrying about their own loved ones.”

He has a daughter, not yet a year old. Leaving the south, he says, has not crossed his mind.

Since war broke out between Israel and Hezbollah on March 2 as part of the broader U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Lebanon’s emergency services have been pushed into the worst stretch in their modern history. 

The Lebanese Health Ministry has recorded at least 103 health workers killed, the majority of them frontline paramedics, alongside more than 238 wounded and at least 25 ambulances and civil defense vehicles destroyed. 

One of the deadliest single episodes came on April 15 in Mayfadoun, near Nabatiyeh in the south of the country. An initial Israeli strike on the village drew a first paramedic team from the Islamic Health Committee, a Hezbollah-affiliated rescue service. Israel struck the team, killing two. ............more...........