'Everything is gone': Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

[highplainsdem]

Source: Guardian

The Israeli military has demolished entire villages as part of its invasion of south Lebanon, rigging homes with explosives and razing them to the ground in massive remote detonations.

The Guardian reviewed three videos posted by the Israeli military and on social media, which showed Israel carrying out mass detonations in the villages of Taybeh, Naqoura and Deir Seryan along the Israel-Lebanon border. Lebanese media has reported more mass detonations in other border villages, but satellite imagery was not readily available to verify these claims.

The demolitions came after Israel’s minister of defence, Israel Katz, called for the destruction of “all houses” in border villages “in accordance with the model used in Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza” to stop threats to communities in northern Israel. The Israeli military destroyed 90% of homes in Rafah, in south Gaza.

The tactic of mass destruction of homes in Gaza, where Israel has been accused of committing genocide, was described as domicide by academics, a strategy that is used to systematically destroy and damage civilian housing to render entire areas uninhabitable.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon

[Buddyzbuddy]

1. Please,

continue to enthusiastically support your AIPAC politicians.

[Aussie105]

2. It's called 'land clearance'.

Standard process with virgin ground.
If you want to grow your own crop, you knock down the native vegetation and drive out the resident animals.

In this case though it isn't virgin ground - the 'native vegetation' is made up of buildings and whole villages, and the 'resident animals' are the humans who live there.
The 'own crop' is the setting up of Israeli settlements.

This is a war crime by any definition.

More on the workings of AIPAC here.
https://www.trackaipac.com/

[Lonestarblue]

3. Israel has committed so many war crimes with impunity because no one stops them.

US polls show that younger people support Palestinians, not Israel. Republicans still support Israel because they cheer on the destruction on bring on their delusional end times. We know that Trump is Netanyahu's puppet, but I continue to wonder why other world leaders seemingly do nothing to sanction Israel. They are not powerless. Leaders in the Middle East are just as bad. They just stand by and watch as Israel decimates murders fellow Arabs. Why? Economic sanctions and refusal to trade with Israel could be useful in stopping Bibi's rampages.

[DBoon]

8. sort of like Lidice?

[Scrivener7]

4. And we are understood by the world to be their ally and to have approved and financed this.

It will take decades to restore our reputation, if it's even possible.

[Orrex]

5. Thus continues Netayahu's years-long campaign of deliberate civilian murder

[ratchiweenie]

6. War crimes for sure.

[Bayard]

7. The strategy was successful in Gaza,

So move it on to the next country Bibi covets. Lebanon, then Syria. Kushner is eyeing all that beachfront.

[bluestarone]

9. These fuckers have a goal to build big beautiful motels hotels casinos like they are in Israel.

No good bastards. They will destroy everything they can.

[ananda]

10. How is that winning when you completely destroy a place?

Isn't that like salting your own field?