Almost a quarter of all buildings in 25 villages and municipalities in southern Lebanon, located near the border with Israel, were significantly damaged or completely destroyed.
An analysis of satellite data and videos verified by The Washington Post shows widespread destruction in the villages of southern Lebanon: at least 5,868 structures were damaged or destroyed, as were almost half of the structures in the two areas that were hit hardest - the Aita al-Shaab area and the village of Qila.
The vast majority of the enormous damage – almost 80 percent of it – occurred since October 2nd, the day after the IDF began its ground maneuvers in southern Lebanon.
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The newspaper's investigation, published on Channel 14, shows that the destruction figures in the villages double every two weeks or so.
In addition to the visible destruction caused by the numerous airstrikes by the IDF and artillery fire, the videos released from Lebanon so far also show more than 12 controlled demolitions carried out by the IDF, and according to the newspaper - damaging or destroying at least nine mosques that Hezbollah used as terrorist infrastructure.
The village of Qila was among the first places entered by IDF forces. So far, at least 46 percent of the buildings in the terror town have been damaged or destroyed. The centers of the nearby villages of Aita al-Shaab, Muhayyib, and Ramiya have also been almost completely destroyed. In the village of Mis al-Jabal, about 28% of the town’s buildings have been damaged or destroyed, and more than 900 buildings in total.
The astonishing data attests to the systematic "cleansing" that the IDF is carrying out in southern Lebanon. Four divisions with thousands of fighters, in cooperation with the Air Force, are advancing hand-in-hand in the terrorist villages near the border, cleansing them of the vast infrastructures that Hezbollah built in them in preparation for the "conquest of the Galilee," in which thousands of Radwan's forces would invade, conquer the Galilee settlements adjacent to the border, and commit massacres and atrocities there - apparently many times more than the hell that occurred on October 7 in the Gaza Envelope and the cities of the south.
The IDF did not respond to the data published in the Washington Post.
According to the newspaper, the war in southern Lebanon caused hundreds of thousands of Lebanese to evacuate their homes, and in total, one in five residents in Lebanon were evacuated or fled their homes.
Since October 8, 2023, the day the terrorist organization Hezbollah began launching rockets at Israel, more than 834,000 Lebanese have been evacuated from their homes - most of them from three main districts in the south of the country.
