LBC’s Fogarty seemingly praises Israel’s evacuation orders as being helpful

LBC’s Shelagh Fogarty told a caller on her radio show that the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) could be “a whole lot worse” in Lebanon, implying the IOF was not at the point of “no restraint at all”.

She followed up with:

Frankly, Steve, I will tell you how it helps. Again, this isn’t justifying what Israel is doing, I am just telling you how advising a population to leave because you are going to drop bombs in a city — would you want to know that? I’d like to know that and I’d get the hell out, wouldn’t you?

‘Would you like to be warned before they bombed your city?’
‘No… Why would I?’

Caller Steve butts heads with @ShelaghFogarty over Israel’s strikes in Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/c7GBam2VYm

— LBC (@LBC) April 10, 2026

LBC host’s attitude branded ‘shameful’

On March 19, RT‘s Lebanon bureau chief Steve Sweeney, and his cameraman Ali Rida, were wounded in an IOF airstrike in southern Lebanon while reporting on Israel’s invasion and resistance responses.

Sweeney reshared Fogarty’s clip, saying that Israel’s evacuation warnings are a sham — often posted on social media to areas with poor connectivity in the middle of the night.

Sharing on X, he wrote:

I calculated times between the warnings being issued and the bombings back in 2024. In the first three weeks, the shortest was 4 minutes, and the longest was 29 minutes.

Let me tell you something about these “warnings” that the benevolent I$raeli army issue.

They are posted on social media and usually target areas with poor connection and at times when people are sleeping

I calculated times between the warnings being issued and the bombings… https://t.co/xqzM0QGRwf

— Steve Sweeney (@SweeneySteve) April 12, 2026

Israel has already displaced over 1.1m people in Southern Lebanon and killed thousands. But humanitarian disasters are its speciality, and just like in Gaza, it has now created another one in Lebanon.

As usual, Israel’s standard excuse for bombing Brown people is ‘defeating terrorists’. In this case, in Lebanon, it’s ‘defeating Hezbollah’. Of course, everyone with even half a working brain can see that’s bullshit.

While Zionists like Fogarty sanitise genocide, it’s clear that mainstream media shows no restraint in acting as spokespeople for the IOF.

Featured image via the Canary