Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed
BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.
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"accelerate the destruction of Lebanese homes near the Israeli border based on the model in Gaza"
— Israel Katz , Politician
"the Lebanese government would face 'increasing costs through damage to infrastructure and loss of territory' for as long as Hezbollah remained armed."
— Israel Katz , Politician
"At least 29 villages have been 'completely destroyed' by Israeli forces along a 120-kilometer strip from the Naqoura region (Sour district) to Shebaa (Hasbaya)."
— Mohamed Chamseddine , Academic
"Israel's attacks are sometimes targeted, sometimes indiscriminate."
— unknown municipal council member , Other
Key People
Benjamin Netanyahu is the prime minister of Israel.
Israel Katz is the Defense Minister of Israel.
Head of research at the Lebanese polling institute Information International.
A member of the municipal council of Aita al-Shaab discussing the impacts of Israeli attacks.
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BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.
Israeli forces are destroying more than 1,000 homes daily in Lebanon, with nearly 40,000 housing units damaged in just 35 days, according to a report by Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research.
Israeli attacks since early March have killed 773 in Lebanon as military expands assault to more Beirut neighbourhoods.
Satellite photographs from the imaging company Planet Labs published by Reuters show the scale of destruction caused by Israeli strikes on the Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon over eight months.
Nearly a quarter of all buildings in 25 Lebanese municipalities near the Israeli border had been damaged or destroyed as of Saturday, according to an analysis of satellite data by The Washington Post.
Entire neighborhoods have been razed in 37 villages in southern Lebanon due to the intensification of Israeli bombardment and ground offensive.
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