4 comments

  • ahhhhnoooo 2 hours ago
    Headline really deploying passive voice here. Israel's invasion and wide bombings of Lebanon is what has displaced a million people.
    • throw949449 8 minutes ago
      Lebanon had a few million displaced before bombing even started. Many refugees from Syria, it is basically softer version of Gaza.
    • poisonarena 1 hour ago
      when you let iranian militants dig into your neighborhoods and launch missles at their neighbors for years you have to deal with the consequences. they let their government and military get thoroughly cucked by foreign militias and now they get to live with it.
      • selimthegrim 1 hour ago
        Does Iranian militants mean every local Shiite that Israel is now expelling?
        • YZF 1 hour ago
          Israel is instructing civilians to leave the areas where there is fighting as is their responsibility under international law. When Hezbollah is disarmed by Lebanon and the war is over they can return.
          • PowerElectronix 3 minutes ago
            Do people keep falling for these arguments after all the times it hasn't been the case?
          • IX-103 16 minutes ago
            How did that work out for the Palestinians?
      • Zealotux 1 hour ago
        Keep on blaming the victims, as if you would have any say the day armed and organized militias would come into your neighborhood to do the same.
        • ahhhhnoooo 1 hour ago
          The person you are replying to is probably someone who won't understand that the genocide Israel is perpetrating, the settler colonialism, the systemic abuses and torture and rape of prisoners, the invasion are all justified somehow.

          Some people cannot take a step back and consider other perspectives, unfortunately.

          Edit: see? Their response, "I like it"? This person is deeply troubled and misanthropic.

          • YZF 1 hour ago
            Israel isn't colonizing Lebanon or abusing and torturing Lebanese. But Lebanon certainly abuses prisoners: https://www.hrw.org/report/2013/06/26/its-part-job/ill-treat...

            So by your logic it is fair game to attack Lebanon due to its treatment of prisoners?

            Lebanon also commits war crimes by firing rockets indiscriminately into Israeli population centers.

            Why is your rage so selective?

          • poisonarena 1 hour ago
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    • gryzzly 2 hours ago
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      • braebo 1 hour ago
        What motivated hezbolah to form and engage in violence?
        • gryzzly 1 hour ago
          money from iran and threat of violence by commanders
          • gryzzly 48 minutes ago
            the mob flagged a comment stating that thousands of rockets at israeli civilians by hezbollah is what caused the displacement.

            https://rocketalert.live/

        • poisonarena 1 hour ago
          to destroy israel
          • Daishiman 1 hour ago
            What exactly was happening before Hezbollah was formed?
            • poisonarena 1 hour ago
              the civil war caused by palestinian and muslim terrorists against christian lebanese
    • YZF 1 hour ago
      No. It is Lebanon attacking Israel that resulted in Israel's self defense actions that resulted in the displacement. The displacement is due to Israel's warning to civilians to leave the area of fighting for their protection as it is required to do by international law. Lebanon is firing rockets into Israeli civilian population daily, this is a war crime.

      "Israel strikes Lebanon after Iran ally Hezbollah fires missiles over border"

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/israel-idf-str...

      • smusamashah 1 hour ago
        And they are also using humans as shield? Is it only the enemies of Israel that use human shields or do criminals/terrorists in Israel (if there is such a thing) or any other country do that too?
        • YZF 1 hour ago
          I'm not sure how we got to the human shield conversation but Hezbollah is firing from within civilian areas if that's the question: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-891166

          As to what's common between Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran in the way they treat their civilians I will leave that as an exercise to the reader.

      • warmonger 34 minutes ago
        Interesting, based on your comment Hezbollah did that from Lebanese territories for no reason.

        "Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel in response to the United States-Israeli war on Iran. Israeli forces have also launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon."

        https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/5/at-least-14-people-k...

        > Israel's self defense actions

        > this is a war crime

        Wow-wow just stop that bs. Without israel that region would be much safer.

        • YZF 24 minutes ago
          Last I checked Lebanon was a separate country. So Lebanon decided to join the war against the US and Israel and now the consequences of that are Israel's fault?

          Wow-wow just stop that bs. Without Israel people in the region would be murdering each other just like they did in Syria, in the Iran-Iraq war, in Yemen, in Lebanon's civil war etc. Maybe if those countries stopped attacking Israel they wouldn't be in war Mr. warmonger.

          EDIT: It's worth mentioning that an attack on another country is not a legal reason according to international law to attack a third country. The critics of Israel and the US are claiming those started an "illegal war" on Iran so by that same rationale Lebanon started an illegal war on Israel.

          • oa335 3 minutes ago
            > Maybe if those countries stopped attacking Israel they wouldn't be in war Mr. warmonger.

            Maybe if Israel stopped violently expropriating Arab lands, and assaulting and raping Arabs without consequences. It’s really not that complicated.

  • derelicta 1 minute ago
    Damn I wonder why they are displaced. No one to blame for sure.
  • icegreentea2 2 hours ago
    Seems there are two parallel developments here:

    a) Rise of alternate forms of organizing trust. People distrust government or other organizations, and turn to alternative forms of organization and trust.

    b) Rise of digital wallet/transfer systems that are fundamentally about charging for throughput/withdrawals. The article mentions that banks are restricting withdraws - presumably because banks need deposits to stay liquid. Whish on the other hand doesn't care - it makes money as a % of each transaction.

  • tokai 2 hours ago
    Hasn't Hawala been a thing in Lebanon for hundreds of years? It doesn't seem like a novel development at all, besides the digital tools. Informal money transfer systems are not new thing challenging the banks at all. The banks are the new thing here.