Israel has demolished majority of villages in Southern Lebanonâmostly after the ceasefire
A defense minister bragging about leveling entire villages is the detail that sticks with me. Katz said it was "not one house at a time" but "the entirety of those villages," which reads less like a military report and more like a boast you'd expect from someone proud of the scale of the work. That pride is the strangest part of this story.
The ceasefire was supposed to be the moment the destruction stopped. Instead it became the cover under which the pace picked up. Forty-eight of roughly sixty villages in occupied southern Lebanon have been largely leveled, and most of that happened after the April agreement. A pause in fighting that turns into a demolition spree inverts what a ceasefire is supposed to mean.
I'd want to see the timeline broken down month by month, and I'd want to know who is still living in those remaining villages and under what conditions. The numbers are grim enough on their own, but the gap between what a ceasefire promises and what it delivered is what makes this worth sitting with.