Media day

The war and aggression is still ongoing. Now it's calmer in Beirut and the suberbs, probably because there's nothing much left that relates to Hezbllah in anyway to destroy. But something wierd happened yesterday. Non-Hezbollah media was targeted inexplicably. Al-manar and An-nuur, Hezbollah's TV and Radio stations respectively, were targeted heavily since the beginning of the attacks. The main building of Al-Manar for example, which lies in Hezbollah's stronghold in Beirut's southern suberb, was comletely destroyed and flattened to the ground. Many (all?) of the station's known antennas were destroyed. Apparently both stations are still being able to broadcast from some place that Isreal doesn't know of.

But all this was expected. Isreal is afterall targeting anything relating to Hezbollah, and most of the targets it can find are non-military ones. But what happened yesterday was new. The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) attacked other Lebanese and Arab stations, both their employees and equipment. Among the targets were stations like LBC, Future, Al-jazeera, Al-arabiyya, NewTV, and TL. The head of an LBC broadcasting station was killed, another injured, and many stations or antennas were destroyed. This was in attacks on places in the north of the country and its mountains in which Hezbollah has no existence. Crew members were attacked in the south while doing their job but luckily none was hurt. In addition to all that mobile phone stations were also targeted.

You are welcome to help me understand what will Israel gain from this. When they attack Al-Manar we say that they are attacking Hezbollah's station. But what they did yesterday is attacking stations some of which are owned by parties that are allies of the U.S. We heard some voices here saying that this is an attack on Lebanon's free speech. I find this meaningless. Maybe it was only the IDF's frustration from not being able to accomplish anything militarly against Hezbollah. But still.. why the media?