Thursday, 19 March 2026: - For the past week, the apartheid Israeli regime has initiated and keeps escalating a campaign of violence against the state of Lebanon. This campaign is not merely limited to bombing of particular sites of importance to Lebanon utilising missiles as primary weapons but has now included physical presence of Israeli troops on the ground in southern Lebanon indicating what can be characterised as grave intent for sustained attacks and perpetuation of conditions of war.

Over a thousand people have been killed in this spate of violence, with the likelihood that this number may increase due to the intense nature of the violence by Israeli forces.

These attacks represent Israel’s latest attempt to create an additional front in the military attacks towards Iran and Palestine, thereby deepening the regional crisis and justifying its continued militarisation of the region. This strategy is intended to achieve its imperialistic ambitions, including the annexation of Lebanon in pursuit of territorial expansion and its vision of creating “Greater Israel” which includes takeover of the West Bank and other states in the gulf region in contravention of international law.

It is clear that the imperialist US and apartheid Israeli regimes are the sole culprits in the ongoing destabilisation of the Middle East and have no moral compass whatsoever. Examined within its broader context, the war on Lebanon and Iran constitutes a part of the US’s latest imperial activities aimed at asserting its power through military means in the face of its declining economic and diplomatic influence within the international relations ecosystem. On these grounds, this war has neither legal basis nor moral ground.

The attacks on Lebanon are as unjustified as the attacks on Iran and the continued occupation of Palestine. As the South African Communist Party (SACP), we condemn the war in Lebanon. We continue to call for an end to this violence. The end to violence in Iran and Lebanon includes the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, the cessation of the bombing campaign in both Lebanon and Iran.

The SACP calls for continued solidarity with the people of Lebanon. We continue to commit to mobilising progressive voices in South Africa and across the world to resist imperialist aggression in West Asia and everywhere else where we witness imperialist aggression.

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