'Who knows what will still be standing at the end?'
"Who knows what will still be standing at the end?"Smoke billows over the UNESCO-listed port city of Tyre after Israeli strikes. / Photo: Reuters
"There are beautiful old homes, hundreds of years old. Thousands of artillery shells have hit the town, hundreds of air strikes," said Abdulmonem Choukeir, mayor of Meiss al-Jabal, one of the villages hit by Israeli attacks.Comparing satellite images from October 2023 with those from September and October 2024 reveals that many villages showing significant visible damage over the past month are located on hills overlooking Israel.
Israel's military did not immediately respond to questions about the scale of destruction. Israel's military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on October 24 that Israel has struck more than 3,200 targets in south Lebanon. The area, measuring approximately 150 metres by 400 metres, appeared as a swatch of sandy brown, signalling the buildings there had been entirely flattened. Images from the same month in 2023 showed a densely packed neighbourhood of homes.At least 1.2 million people have been displaced by Israel's strikes and more than 2,600 have been killed over the last year — a vast majority in the last month, Lebanon's government says.
The house had been transformed by Abdel-Hamid into a cultural centre, full of his artworks, original sketches and more than 1,000 books in an all-wood library. Abdel-Hamid passed away in 2013 and was buried behind the house with his late wife.
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