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The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention & Human Security is extremely alarmed by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s warning last week that Beirut’s southern suburbs would “soon resemble Khan Younis,” a reference to the city in the southern Gaza Strip that has been completely flattened by over two years of Israeli bombardment. It is grotesque that a state minister would publicly threaten the Lebanese people with the same large-scale destruction, mass killing, and genocidal violence that has devastated the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel's intense bombardment of Lebanon, including the capital of Beirut, its hasty so-called "evacuation orders" affecting over 500,000 people, and its planned land invasion are very much part of its current strategy aimed at remaking the Middle East under Israeli hegemony through expansion into long coveted territory. The fact that the Finance Minister is threatening mass atrocities in this theatre of war should be of enormous concern to the entire world, as we have all watched in horror as Israel made good on similar threats against Gaza after October 7, 2023. The Lemkin Institute urges unity among the people of Lebanon. We further call on the Security Council of the United Nations, the European Union, NATO, the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and other regional bodies to place maximum pressure on Israel to ensure that no part of Lebanon becomes another Gaza. Now is not the time to be silent. If we all continue to remain silent, the entire world will end up like Gaza as one state after another takes a lesson from Israel and decides to solve its problems through absolute destruction. The world must act decisively to put an end to this carnage, to bring Israel into a real peace process with Palestinians and its neighbours, and to ensure that leaders who have committed high crimes are brought to justice. Enough is enough is enough is enough. To read the full alert, visit: https://t.co/EhUgzavX6T