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L’Attimo Fuggente di Venerdì 10 Aprile 2026

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From Beirut: Israel launched Operation Eternal Darkness — 100+ targets hit in 10 minutes, 254 people killed, smoke visible from every window, and 'all of Lebanon is now a single target.'

1. Fronte Globale is a geopolitics segment of L'Attimo Fuggente on Giornale Radio, hosted on April 10, 2026 by Alberto Fazzolo and Nicola Compagnone. 2. Alberto Fazzolo is the geopolitics analyst; Nicola Compagnone is the co-host; Elisa Gestri is the show's Lebanon correspondent; Vincenzo Lorusso is a journalist and author based in Moscow. 3. The episode covers three simultaneous crisis fronts: Israel-Lebanon (Operation Eternal Darkness), the Russia-Ukraine Easter truce, and Hungarian parliamentary elections. 4. Italian President Sergio Mattarella, speaking in Prague, described Lebanon as a 'stabilizing country' with 'progressive disarmament of Hezbollah' and called for a more active EU peace role — claims Fazzolo immediately contested as false. 5. Fazzolo argues the EU cannot project a common foreign policy in Lebanon and that France, as Lebanon's former colonial power, is the only realistic external actor with historical interest in the region. 6. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni addressed Parliament the day before the episode, defending Italy's geopolitical alignment as 'the same for 80 years' and rejecting accusations of subalternity to Trump. 7. Fazzolo argues Italy's government demonstrates 'subalternity not just to the United States but also to Israel,' citing Italy's failure to condemn Israeli attacks on UNIFIL peacekeepers as 'humiliating' and placing Italian soldiers at risk. 8. War correspondent Elisa Gestri, whose voice messages were used because live communication was impossible due to bombing, described Israel's Operation Eternal Darkness: over 100 targets struck in 10 minutes, 254 killed according to Lebanese civil protection. 9. Targets included residential buildings in multiple Beirut neighborhoods from the southern Dahieh suburb, through central districts, to the luxury seafront area where displaced southern Lebanese had sheltered. 10. The IDF's Chief of Staff stated attacks against Hezbollah would continue without interruption and noted the Lebanon-Hezbollah conflict is not covered by the Iran-US ceasefire. 11. Trump described events in Lebanon as 'skirmishes'; Israeli and American sources reported a Trump-Netanyahu phone call confirming that operations against Hezbollah would continue. 12. The IDF announced it had destroyed the last bridge connecting southern Lebanon to the rest of the country, physically isolating the south. 13. Fazzolo argues this constitutes an unambiguous Israeli occupation of Lebanese sovereign territory — legally distinct from Gaza because Lebanon is a UN member state with an active UNIFIL peacekeeping mission. 14. The Iran-US ceasefire text released by Iran and Pakistan includes Lebanon in its provisions; Israel does not consider itself bound by it. 15. Russia-Ukraine: Putin announced an Easter truce; Zelensky said Ukraine would respect it. 16. Vincenzo Lorusso, reporting from Lugansk (Donbass) and temporarily in Moscow, states that civilian infrastructure attacks in Donbass originate from Ukrainian forces, which he can confirm from living there. 17. Lorusso describes Ukrainian drones that struck Russia's Leningrad region traveling first through Poland, then through the three Baltic NATO states, crossing NATO airspace — a route confirmed by Finland. 18. He contrasts near-total Western media silence on this NATO airspace violation with the intense coverage given to alleged Russian drone incursions into Poland, Moldova, and Latvia. 19. Hungarian elections: Orbán, having received endorsement from US Vice President Vance and declared himself 'at Putin's service,' is described as pursuing energy independence for Hungary rather than ideological alignment with Russia. 20. Listeners interested in daily Italian geopolitical analysis from Italian and Russian perspectives on Lebanon, Ukraine, and EU foreign policy will find the episode most valuable.

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