From a new blog set-up to aggregate news from inside Lebanon, Siege of Lebanon:
The main arteries of the country have been destroyed — from the south to the north. What does this mean? This means that travel between main cities *throughout Lebanon* is physically impossible. One cannot leave the country to Syria — nor, and more importantly, can one move safely from one area to another, from one city to another, and, in the South, from one part of the village to another part of the village. There is only one main route that is still open (the highway from nothern Beirut to Tripoli), and since last night, Israel has been threatening to bomb the tunnel in Chekka, thus making it impossible to go – on the main road – from Jbeil/Byblos to the northern areas, and vice versa. (some basic geography of Lebanon, from the central Lebanon to the north, the main cities are: Beirut, Jounieh, Jbeil/Byblos, Batroun, Chekka, Tripoli. This besieging of villages is especially vicious in the South. The Israeli army has been calling upon villages in the South to evacuate yet they have destroyed the roads on which they can evacuate – so the message is clear: leave your homes and we will kill you, stay in your homes and we will kill you. They have done both.
What does all this mean?
Israel is attempting to scare the Lebanese into submission by forcing us to remain in the country and not “escape.” This is terorism – in its purest form.