CPP Condemns Zionist Israel’s Attacks Against The People Of Lebanon

 

Marco Valbuena | Chief Information Officer | Communist Party Of The Philippines

September 23, 2024

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) strongly condemns Zionist Israel’s recent indiscriminate attacks on Lebanon, which involved booby-trapping thousands of pagers and walkie-talkie devices by ladening them with explosive material and remotely detonating them simultaneously. The attacks were carried out on September 17 and 18, killing more than 20 individuals, mostly civilians, including children, and injuring more than 2,800 people.

These attacks are brazen violations of international humanitarian law, which prohibits indiscriminate attacks that do not distinguish between civilians and combatants. The Zionist leaders of Israel must be held accountable and punished for their war crimes.

These attacks aim to punish the people of Lebanon and their anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist resistance forces for supporting the struggle of the Palestinian people for liberation and self-determination. These form part of the US-sanctioned Zionist plan to spread the war in the Middle East after almost one year of constant aerial bombing and shelling of Gaza, which has killed more than 40,000 people, including more than 10,600 children.

Over the past few months, the Zionists, with US support, have repeatedly provoked Iran, Syria and Yemen, all of which have strongly opposed Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. Yesterday, Israel launched a wave of missile strikes against more than 400 targets across southern Lebanon. This constitutes a significant escalation in military aggression against the Lebanese people. American carrier strike groups have already been deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to extend support to Israel.

The Party extends its solidarity with the people of Lebanon and supports their just resistance against Zionist Israel’s continuing aggression and attacks. The people of Lebanon and their resistance forces have every right to retaliate, fight back and defend their land.

The Party joins the broad democratic forces around the world in condemning the US imperialists for funding and arming the genocidal war of Zionist Israel against the Palestinian people, for supporting its strikes against Lebanon and for its plan to spread the war across the Middle East. The US strategy has always been to use Israel to exercise control over the vast oil and mineral resources of the region.

The CPP calls on the Filipino people to unite and condemn Israel’s aggression against Lebanon, oppose US imperialist warmongering, foreign intervention and state terrorism, and support the resistance of the Palestinian people, the people of Lebanon and all who are fighting for national liberation.