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"Israel's" government has pushed through yet another expansion of its 2025 budget, exposing the spiraling cost of its wars on Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran while ordinary citizens face cuts in public services. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet approved a 30 billion shekel ($8.9 billion) hike on Tuesday, equivalent to 1.5% of GDP. The revision comes only five months after the Knesset passed the original budget, revealing how "Israel's" war machine is consuming national resources at unprecedented speed. Here’s what it’s really costing.
Robert Inlakesh
Hannan Hussain
'Error. Danger. OK.': Lebanon’s wounded remember the Israeli pager massacre
Today, one year since the Israeli terrorist pager attack on Lebanon, Al Mayadeen shares the raw testimonies of Hussein al-Harakeh, Hussein Dhaine, and Ali Abbass. A man and two children, who watched a device light up, read an "error" or a "danger" message, pressed a button, and in the blink of an eye, lost their eyesight or fingers. Their stories are not isolated tragedies but evidence, as lawyer and professor in criminal law Mohammad Habhab warned, that this Israeli massacre "amounts to a war crime," violating four principles of international humanitarian law. Watch their testimony to hear, in their own words, how pain turns into resolve.
