Submission statement: the story of a Lebanese couple whose house was razed by the IDF during its invasion and ongoing occupation of south Lebanon, as satellite images show systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure by Israel in its "red zone".
The 2026 Lebanon war broke out on March 2, when Hezbollah fired salvos of rockets against northern Israel as an act of vengeance for the assassination of Ali Khamenei, formally ending the ceasefire between Israel and the Islamist terrorist group since November 2024 – which had been regularly broken by both parties – and leading to a severe bombing campaign and a ground invasion by the IDF.
Nearly 2,500 Lebanese, half of them civilians, have been killed and 1.2 million, a fifth of Lebanon's population, have been displaced over six weeks of fighting that nominally ended in mid-April after the inclusion of the Lebanese front in the ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran, and the opening of direct talks between the Lebanese government and Israel, the first of their kind since the 1990s.
But despite the ceasefire, Israel has continued a campaign of systematic, widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure in the area occupied by its troops in south Lebanon, in an area dubbed the "red zone" extending 5-10 kilometers from the border with Israel, the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights (internationally recognized as Syrian territory), and the UN buffer zone in Syria, which the IDF invaded in December 2024 during the collapse of the Assad regime, and which it has occupied since then.
Reusing a terminology used in Gaza, where 52% of the Palestinian territory remains under Israeli occupation and where widespread demolitions of civilian infrastructure have been carried out by Israel, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the establishment of a "yellow line" in south Lebanon, which civilians cannot cross under threat of shooting.
Satellite images and videos recorded on the ground show that the IDF, with support from civilian contractors recruited by the army, has levelled entire villages with explosive demolitions and bulldozers, extending to religious buildings and agricultural land like Joe and Diana Elias' olive grove, which can be seen razed to the ground.
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