WHAT IS ISRAEL’S DAHIYA DOCTRINE?

Israel has long claimed it needs to protect itself using deterrence. That has meant when an enemy strikes, it would hit back so hard to ensure no one would dare touch it. That policy forms the basis of the Dahiya Doctrine, named after a Shi’ite suburb in Lebanon that the Israeli Air Force carpet-bombed during the 2006 war with Hezbollah.

Watch as Israeli historian, professor and politician Ilan Pappé vividly illustrates the doctrine.

In the first 89 days of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, it had dropped 65,000 tonnes of explosives on the besieged enclave, the equivalent of three atomic bombs. Since the 7 October escalation in the 75-year Israeli occupation of Palestine, Israel has so far k*lled over 34,000 Palestinians, many of them women and children. Tel Aviv accuses militant group H*mas of using Palestinians as human shields, but this video reveals the deaths are part of a deliberate Israeli policy.