| ▲ | With one million displaced, Lebanon turns to digital wallets for aid(wired.com) |
| 32 points by joozio 3 hours ago | 24 comments |
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| ▲ | ahhhhnoooo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Headline really deploying passive voice here. Israel's invasion and wide bombings of Lebanon is what has displaced a million people. |
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| ▲ | throw949449 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Lebanon had a few million displaced before bombing even started. Many refugees from Syria, it is basically softer version of Gaza. | | |
| ▲ | oa335 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Syria actually worse than Gaza (5+ million displaced, 200k+ civilians killed) but over a much larger area and timespan. |
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| ▲ | YZF an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | No. It is Lebanon attacking Israel that resulted in Israel's self defense actions that resulted in the displacement. The displacement is due to Israel's warning to civilians to leave the area of fighting for their protection as it is required to do by international law. Lebanon is firing rockets into Israeli civilian population daily, this is a war crime. "Israel strikes Lebanon after Iran ally Hezbollah fires missiles over border" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/israel-idf-str... | | |
| ▲ | bitwank a few seconds ago | parent | next [-] | | Is Israel firing into Christian neighborhoods? I think I saw something saying they were not. That seems consistent with Israel’s strikes being intended to target Hezbollah specifically (because Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel at the outset of the military operation in Iran). | |
| ▲ | oa335 6 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > The displacement is due to Israel's warning to civilians to leave the area of fighting for their protection Most modern instances of ethnic cleansing are justified as military necessities. E.g.: Armenian genocide “Article 1—During war time, army and corp commanders and their deputies and commanders of fortified posts are obliged to destroy any assault or resistance and violently restore order with military forces in the case of opposition, armed attacks or resistance directed against the government orders, the defense of homeland and the preservation of public order. Article 2—Army, independent corp and division commanders are allowed to transfer and relocate the village and town population in matters related to the military affair or if they feel there is an activity of espionage and treason.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Law_of_Deportation | |
| ▲ | smusamashah an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | And they are also using humans as shield? Is it only the enemies of Israel that use human shields or do criminals/terrorists in Israel (if there is such a thing) or any other country do that too? | | |
| ▲ | YZF an hour ago | parent [-] | | I'm not sure how we got to the human shield conversation but Hezbollah is firing from within civilian areas if that's the question:
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-891166 As to what's common between Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran in the way they treat their civilians I will leave that as an exercise to the reader. |
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| ▲ | warmonger an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Interesting, based on your comment Hezbollah did that from Lebanese territories for no reason. "Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel in response to the United States-Israeli war on Iran. Israeli forces have also launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/5/at-least-14-people-k... > Israel's self defense actions > this is a war crime Wow-wow just stop that bs. Without israel that region would be much safer. | | |
| ▲ | YZF 38 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Last I checked Lebanon was a separate country. So Lebanon decided to join the war against the US and Israel and now the consequences of that are Israel's fault? Wow-wow just stop that bs. Without Israel people in the region would be murdering each other just like they did in Syria, in the Iran-Iraq war, in Yemen, in Lebanon's civil war etc. Maybe if those countries stopped attacking Israel they wouldn't be in war Mr. warmonger. EDIT: It's worth mentioning that an attack on another country is not a legal reason according to international law to attack a third country. The critics of Israel and the US are claiming those started an "illegal war" on Iran so by that same rationale Lebanon started an illegal war on Israel. | | |
| ▲ | oa335 17 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > Maybe if those countries stopped attacking Israel they wouldn't be in war Mr. warmonger. Maybe if Israel stopped violently expropriating Arab lands, and assaulting and raping Arabs without consequences. It’s really not that complicated. |
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| ▲ | poisonarena 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | when you let iranian militants dig into your neighborhoods and launch missles at their neighbors for years you have to deal with the consequences. they let their government and military get thoroughly cucked by foreign militias and now they get to live with it. | | |
| ▲ | selimthegrim 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Does Iranian militants mean every local Shiite that Israel is now expelling? | | |
| ▲ | YZF an hour ago | parent [-] | | Israel is instructing civilians to leave the areas where there is fighting as is their responsibility under international law. When Hezbollah is disarmed by Lebanon and the war is over they can return. | | |
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| ▲ | Zealotux 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Keep on blaming the victims, as if you would have any say the day armed and organized militias would come into your neighborhood to do the same. | | |
| ▲ | ahhhhnoooo 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The person you are replying to is probably someone who won't understand that the genocide Israel is perpetrating, the settler colonialism, the systemic abuses and torture and rape of prisoners, the invasion are all justified somehow. Some people cannot take a step back and consider other perspectives, unfortunately. Edit: see? Their response, "I like it"? This person is deeply troubled and misanthropic. | | |
| ▲ | YZF an hour ago | parent [-] | | Israel isn't colonizing Lebanon or abusing and torturing Lebanese. But Lebanon certainly abuses prisoners:
https://www.hrw.org/report/2013/06/26/its-part-job/ill-treat... So by your logic it is fair game to attack Lebanon due to its treatment of prisoners? Lebanon also commits war crimes by firing rockets indiscriminately into Israeli population centers. Why is your rage so selective? |
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| ▲ | icegreentea2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Seems there are two parallel developments here: a) Rise of alternate forms of organizing trust. People distrust government or other organizations, and turn to alternative forms of organization and trust. b) Rise of digital wallet/transfer systems that are fundamentally about charging for throughput/withdrawals. The article mentions that banks are restricting withdraws - presumably because banks need deposits to stay liquid. Whish on the other hand doesn't care - it makes money as a % of each transaction. |
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| ▲ | derelicta 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Damn I wonder why they are displaced. No one to blame for sure. |
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| ▲ | tokai 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Hasn't Hawala been a thing in Lebanon for hundreds of years? It doesn't seem like a novel development at all, besides the digital tools. Informal money transfer systems are not new thing challenging the banks at all. The banks are the new thing here. |
