Israel, Lebanon and the Real Human Suffering Our Tax Dollars Are Paying For
March 24, 2026
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The Intercept published a devastating on-the-ground report on the human cost of Israel's ongoing military campaign in southern Lebanon, and Hawk walks through the real stories of real people living through displacement, starvation, and state collapse, all of it funded by American tax dollars.
A 70-year-old woman in a wheelchair sits beneath the same crescent moon statue in downtown Beirut where she sheltered during a previous Israeli bombardment, her grandchildren unfed, sleeping on a sidewalk, eventually disappearing with no trace.
A 16-year-old named Karim nearly died on Airport Road when missiles cut off his family's escape route. He now sleeps on a mattress against a graffiti wall, charging his phone in cafes. A woman named Yara runs a transitional justice organization that has become a makeshift kitchen, cooking and delivering a thousand meals a day to tent encampments at Horsch Beirut in the rain.
One in five people in Lebanon, roughly one million out of 5.5 million, are currently displaced. Nearly 99,000 homes were damaged or destroyed before the latest invasion even began. More than a thousand people have been killed, 118 of them children.
The United States sends Israel $4 billion a year in baseline funding, and has transferred tens of billions more in money and weapons since October 7th, 2023. Hawk also highlights the work of creator The Real Corn Pop and the independent journalism outlet The Intercept, both worth your time.
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