‘Nowhere is safe’: Concerns grow as Israel strikes new areas of Lebanon

The Israeli military has not yet said who or what it targeted in Aramoun.

But the strike bore similarities to several in other parts of the country: launched without warning on residential buildings or houses hosting displaced people. The Israeli military has said many of those strikes have targeted Hezbollah infrastructure.

The attacks are causing increasing social unease within host communities, with residents voicing concern over the possibility of Israel targeting displaced people living among them or others visiting, often to deliver financial assistance.

“We all love the resistance [Hezbollah], but if someone has a son and isn’t even sure he is in Hezbollah, or someone is coming to give aid to displaced people and they are being targeted, we are paying the price,” said one man who owns house in the area that was struck and lives there with his wife and child.

He added: “The displaced came as guests and we welcome them. But if there is someone stranger here, whoever he is – it might be my own child and I’m not aware of him being in Hezbollah – and they target him, and children and women get killed, isn’t that pitiful?”

Such comments have become more common following the recent series of Israeli strikes in various parts of the country which are outside the known areas of hostilities.

But at the same time there are increasing calls in Lebanon for national unity as well as warnings that such strikes from Israel could be purposely designed to create that social unease.