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Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker. Temoris Greco share with Aristegui News, from Beirut, Lebanon, the devastating effects of war on the Lebanese population, after the outbreakIsraeli military offensive against Hezbollah militias October 1 last year.
In a conflict scenario Greco, along with another Mexican journalist, Manuel Ortiz register terror of a population besieged by land and air almost a month later New Israeli invasion of Lebanonthe third after the previous ones that occurred in 1978 and 1982.
“This is an aggression, an invasion, which the State of Israel is committing with enormous impudence. This is not only a violation of Lebanese territory, since there are parts that have been invaded by Israeli troops, but also the problem of drones,” he says. Greco by phone from Beirut.
“All the time They have a drone over the Lebanese capitalan Israeli drone, what is it transmitting, they fly very low, with a lot of noise, when they have silent drones and this same drone could be higher, but the idea is to convey to the Lebanese population the idea that it’s like if it were him ‘eye of God’ who watches the population all the time, trying to intimidate her so that she would not resist the troops invading her country“.
These drones establish points and coordinates where Israeli missiles can fall. They are attacking parts of the city that are primarily Shiite, the population of a Shiite Muslim sect affiliated with or trying to be represented by Hezbollah, which is a militia party that opposes Israel.
“The threat that (Benjamin) made Netanyahu, specific verbal threat, it is clear that if other sectorsother communities in Lebanon that are Christian, Sunni, Druze, support Shia Then the war is also against them“That’s why there are a lot of people who are afraid.”
Greco It has been recorded that in such a small country the size Queretaronear six million peopleyes, one a quarter of the Shia-majority population was forced to flee their homes. while the rest of societynon-Muslim or Christian, afraid to help for fear of being branded enemies of Israel and become a target when winter is just around the corner.
“It is very strong (reality) because winter is also comingthe temperature is not very cold yet, but already so many people are displaced and homeless What They are going to spend the winter outdoors. Their winters are colder than ours in central Mexico, it’s not Norway, but it’s pretty cold there.”
In the same area is the Gaza Strip, about 200 kilometers to the south, and this is where the genocide occurs. There are 2 million 200 thousand people in Gaza, and most of them are also homeless, their houses have been destroyed, and they are entering another winter because they have already spent one in the open.
“It’s something that It shocked the community here (Lebanon) who doesn’t know what to do, who are afraid to help people who no longer have a home, but at the same time would like to do something.”
Bureaucracy, mistrust and fear. Greco and Ortiz They carry out their information work in a chaotic scenario where nothing comes easy or simple. someone is under suspicion.
Since this is a country under attack, there is a lot of bureaucracy, which is explained by the fact that they are trying to prevent Israeli espionage, which has already dealt very strong blows not only to its direct enemies, but also to society as a whole, for example, the explosion of thousands of pagers.
“These intelligence operations are carried out people who enter the countrythen we had to go Ministry of Information to obtain permits, but also talk to military intelligence, to militias, to groups that control certain territories, For example Hezbollahwe must ask their permission to let us in.”
They see us and don’t know if we’re really Mexican, they’re not really used to seeing Mexicans here so it gets their attention and they want to know if we’re something else and masquerading as Mexican.
In the midst of all the destruction, Greco and Ortiz offered to give visibility for people who cling to life and their land.
“We intend to work on sustainability issues. We don’t want spectacle of bombs and death this is what the media reports all the time because This is the most spectacular and we think it’s demobilizing because when it comes to it, it seems like there’s no solution, everything’s bombs and that’s it.”
We want to see people who are trying to resist, like farmers who continue to tend their orchards, olive groves, citrus orchards, even though they are throwing away, for example, white phosphorus, a chemical. , a chemical weapon thrown at people and causing terrible burns, but it also remains on the land and makes it barren, making those lands no longer suitable for cultivation.
He said there is a use white phosphorus as a weapon against people, but also aggression against land and opportunity produce food which cover the needs of the population, generating mass displacements and exterminations.
There is a huge love and tradition around olive trees, and Israel here in Lebanon, as with the Palestinians, has destroyed their olive groves, which is a way of destroying a culture and displacing people. The idea that they can no longer have their olive trees is that they lose touch with their land and end up abandoning and leaving their land to them.
“We are interested to see people who don’t allow themselves to be expelledthis method of expelling them, and They are trying to protect their connection to the earth thanks to the care of the olive groves,” he concluded.
IN Lebanon, as in Gaza Stripamong the most vulnerable segments of the population, women and children,sharply increases number of victims, The consequences of a war that has no time to end.
This attack that they did with the pager explosion, which they are very proud of because it was a great espionage maneuver, is an indiscriminate attack on the civilian population because you cannot know who owns the radio communication device, and in many cases they are there were families, it was children, who were near these devices that suddenly exploded, and those who were seriously injured were children.
“These bombs are for killing Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s decades-long leader was surprised to find himself in a densely populated area of Beirutto kill him they dropped 80,900 kg bombs, according to the Israeli army80 900 kg bombs over populated areasabout buildings, then cIt killed 300 people, The figure is not exact, since many people disappeared, many bodies evaporated and These are also the bodies of children, the bodies of women, the bodies of people who have absolutely nothing to do with this violence.”
It is happening here and it is very serious, 200 boys and girls have died in recent months, but in the case of Gaza, where the death toll is known, identified because many more remain under the rubble or have evaporated. The bombs killed more than 42 thousand people, of which 40% were girls and boys, during this Israeli military offensive more than 16 thousand girls and boys died.
Girls and boys what if he survives, will suffer the consequences of war because in the body they will carry traces of tribal conflict.
And this is not to mention the girls and boys who were injured, lost part of their body, went blind, who were left with destroyed faces (…) and who, in addition, were abandoned because they were orphans. father and mother, or lost entire families – this is what Doctors Without Borders has identified in the case of thousands of children who are now forever alone and without an adult to accompany them.
“These are the ones consequences of this war that the powers that claim to defend human rights, that claim to defend freedom and democracy, are complicit in this. USA this is the first thing “He funds weapons and provides political and diplomatic protection for this war waged by the State of Israel.”
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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