{"id":77255,"date":"2026-08-14T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77255\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:15:20","slug":"is-israel-deliberately-starting-wildfires-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77255\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Israel deliberately starting wildfires in Lebanon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Is Israel deliberately starting wildfires in Lebanon?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d0XMFNg8va8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIs Israel deliberately starting wildfires in Lebanon?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAn ecocide: that\u2019s how one conservationist has described the recent wildfires in southern Lebanon, claiming that the Israeli military has been dropping flares to deliberately start fires.<br \/>\nSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian\u2019s William Christou reports from Beirut on a pattern of attacks against Lebanon\u2019s woodland that emergency services, residents and environmental groups say are part of a longstanding Israeli practice of targeting Lebanon\u2019s natural environment to render it uninhabitable.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said its operations were \u201cconducted while taking precautionary measures to mitigate harm to civilians and the environment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Head to the link to read William\u2019s full report \u25ba https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/12\/israel-deliberately-starting-wildfires-in-southern-lebanon-firefighters-say<\/p>\n<p>#Lebanon #Israel #wildfires #ecocide #middleeast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Israel deliberately starting wildfires in Lebanon? An ecocide: that\u2019s how one conservationist has described the recent wildfires&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[95,3580,403,712,2259,63331,63335,4692,1682,1770,240,261,25252,63,63336,25251,27792,273,53189,1767,63338,63330,715,63329,1762,1688,65,63332,63337,4537,63328,40,31,63333,63334,52,1761,31746,3376,9795,30138],"class_list":["post-77255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guardian-news","tag-95","tag-agriculture","tag-beirut","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-climate-crisis","tag-ecocide","tag-farmland","tag-fires","tag-genocide","tag-greater-israel","tag-guardian","tag-guardian-news","tag-hezbolla","tag-hezbollah","tag-hizbulla","tag-hizbullah","tag-icc","tag-idf","tag-idf-lebanon","tag-idf-war-crimes","tag-israel-crimes","tag-israel-lighting-wildfires","tag-israel-news","tag-israel-starting-wildfires","tag-israeli","tag-israeli-war-crimes","tag-lebanon","tag-lebanon-fires","tag-lebanon-genocide","tag-lebanon-news","tag-lebanon-wildfires","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-olive-groves","tag-olives","tag-terrorism","tag-war-crimes","tag-war-criminal","tag-wildfire","tag-wildfires","tag-zionists"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}