Images verified by AFP on Monday showed massive detonations in a Lebanese village bordering Israel, where hundreds of houses were destroyed by the Israeli army, according to a local official.
Aerial images posted on social networks show the dynamiting of more than a dozen buildings in Meiss el-Jabal, in southern Lebanon.
Thick mushrooms of smoke rose into the sky, testifying to the intensity of the explosions.
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.
The mayor 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.
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