As soon as Israel turned its attention to Lebanon, the news obediently followed suit. All of a sudden, we were back to geopolitics, regional tensions, and “spectacular” Israeli attacks, with little attention given to the cost in human lives. The escalation between Israel and Iran threatens to shift our collective gaze further away from both Lebanon and Gaza. In the meantime, the genocide in Gaza continues, and some of the methods refined there have become cornerstones of Israel’s warfare in Lebanon. At the start of the war on Gaza, Israel’s massive bombing of civilian areas in Lebanon in 2006—the so-called “Dahiyeh Doctrine“—came to memory. Gadi Eisenkot, Chief of Northern Command in the IDF at the time, explained the doctrine as follows: “We will apply disproportionate force on [each village] and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases.” The genocide…

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