Israel has long intended to do to southern Lebanon exactly what it’s doing to Gaza, and to the same end - to kill enough people and destroy enough infrastructure to terrorize the survivors into fleeing, so they can steal their land.

This is nothing new - if you look back through history, you’ll find the same dynamic repeated over and over - every time the world focus shifts to Gaza or Iran or Syria or Libya or wherever, Israel takes the opportunity to go attack southern Lebanon some more and kill and terrorize some more civilians. And if necessary, they regurgitate some stock propaganda about Hezbollah. And if the world attention shifts too much to Lebanon, they’ll stop, and just wait for the next distraction to provide the next opportunity.