Israel says it wants to neutralize pro-Iranian Hezbollah in the sector, against which it has been at open war for more than a month, and move it away from the border, in order to allow the return of northern residents who have fled its incessant fire. for a year.
Hezbollah, for its part, accuses the Israeli army of pursuing “a scorched earth policy” and of wanting to create a “no man’s land” on the border.
Video from Meiss el-Jabal shows huge explosions near a hospital, which was evacuated according to Mayor Abdel-Moneem Choukair.
“70% of Meiss el-Jabal is destroyed,” he told AFP, even though the locality has some 1,200 houses.
He said that the village had been deserted by its inhabitants but that four people, aged 85 to 90, were still stuck there waiting to be rescued by the Red Cross and the Lebanese army.
In a statement Monday, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati denounced Israeli “crimes of murder and destruction.”
At the end of October, the Lebanese news agency Ani listed seven border villages where Israeli forces dynamited houses day after day.
