Israel's attacks on Lebanon have not stopped; on the contrary, they have intensified in the wake of ceasefire agreements.
"Just today, Tuesday, November 26, they have around 35 bombs in Beirut alone," said journalist Manuel Ortiz from Lebanon, during the radio program Península 360 Press, with Marcos Gutiérrez, host of the program. Hecho en California.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that a ceasefire agreement had been reached between the Israeli army and the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah, after Netanyahu had previously met with his security cabinet and some ministers, holding important talks on this issue.
The Israeli president thus confirmed the agreement in a speech to the nation. According to the latest figures from the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, the Israeli army's attacks on Lebanese territory have left more than 3,700 dead and some 15,700 wounded.
The upsurge in hostilities in Beirut and southern Lebanon comes amid clashes that began more than a year ago after Hezbollah attacked Israel a day after an offensive by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
Last Saturday, November 23, an eight-story building in downtown Beirut was attacked in the early hours of the morning, killing dozens of people.
The attacks have not stopped and places that were considered safe are no longer so: "People are evacuating the city, the streets are congested, in many places that were considered safe, people are coming to seek shelter, but the whole of Lebanon is also being bombed," said Manuel Ortiz.
To stay safe and alert in the event of bombings, a system has been created to filter information that circulates through social networks, where warnings arrive a few minutes before.
"The tremors of the bombs are constantly being felt; people leak information about the bombings via WhatsApp, there is a person who gives a few minutes' notice to evacuate a certain area, however, in many of the attacks, if not the majority, they are without warning," explained Manuel Ortiz.
It is important to highlight the way in which people take care of each other within the community. Manuel Ortiz visited a camp in the south of the city, a camp for Palestinian refugees in a very crowded neighborhood, and from there you could hear the explosions and the ground shook from the vibration of the explosions, and although they were not directly in the neighborhood, people had already become accustomed to these events.
There are deaths every day: Ortiz visited a hospital and had the opportunity to talk with the director, who told him that the hospitals are saturated and cannot accommodate more people.
Finally, Ortiz commented that the United States has a huge responsibility, since it has financed this massacre, and despite the fact that there has been talk that civilians and innocent people are not being attacked, it is a lie.
"They are attacking buildings where there are civilians, they are attacking neighborhoods where children are dying, where women and the elderly are dying. We have to be very attentive to what information they are selling us, because there is a huge difference between the narrative that many media outlets sell and what is happening," he said.
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