Video shows massive detonations in Lebanon border village
Footage verified by AFP on Monday showed massive detonations in a southern Lebanese border village, where a local official said hundreds of houses have been wiped out by Israel since last year.
The video, shared widely online on Monday, showed more than a dozen simultaneous detonations that ripped through Mays al-Jabal and razed homes to dust.
Similar aerial scenes have been captured from several border villages, including Mhaibib and Adaisseh, since Israel sent ground troops into southern Lebanon in late September.
Houses covering lush hills are seen crumpling in a cloud of grey dust in the videos circulating widely online.
Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah infrastructure near the frontier in a bid to push the Iran-backed group away from the border and allow for its residents to return to northern Israel.
Monday's video from Mays al-Jabal showed large detonations near a vacated hospital in the village, said mayor Abdul-Monhem Choukair.
The area has been repeatedly struck since Israel and Hezbollah started trading cross-border fire in October last year.
"Seventy percent of Mays al-Jabal is destroyed," the mayor said, adding that the "Israeli enemy's goal is systematic destruction."
Choukair said four people, aged between 85 and 90, are trapped in Mays al-Jabal pending their rescue.
According to Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA), Israeli troops dynamited buildings in at least seven border villages last month.
Israel's Channel 12 last month broadcast footage appearing to show one of its presenters blow up a building while embedded with soldiers in the village of Aita al-Shaab.
Lebanon's National Human Rights Commission has said "the ongoing destruction campaign carried out by the Israeli army in southern Lebanon is a war crime."
Between October 2023 and October 2024, locations "were wantonly and systematically destroyed in at least eight Lebanese villages," it said, basing its findings on satellite images and videos shared on social media by Israeli soldiers.
04 November 2024, 20:19
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How many buildings are there south of the Litani River in Lebanon?
04 November 2024, 20:25
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The ambition to erase entire peoples and obliterate their heritage is far from new. Long before the establishment of the State of Israel, certain Zionist leaders had already envisioned plans, as early as the 1930s, aimed at reshaping the Middle East to align with their interests—often at the expense of existing communities and their histories. This mindset of cultural and political domination paralleled the upheavals witnessed in Russia, where radical Bolshevik (98% Jewish) had sought to reshape society and dismantle longstanding traditions, regardless of the human or cultural cost.
04 November 2024, 22:12
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Yep, that is what a system of tunnels looks like when they are filled with explosives and detonated. Not clear from the video what proportion of explosives were Lebanese, what portion were Iranian, or what portion were Israeli ... Still, the report say Israel pushed the button, so it wasn't an accidental Iranian explosion this time.
04 November 2024, 23:42
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Your claims are fundamentally disingenuous, "Hell&Waite." I implore you to examine the video at speed of 0.25; it will become evident that no tunnel exists to connect the homes. The explosives were detonated exclusively within those structures, resulting in the systematic obliteration of Lebanese towns, mirroring the devastation suffered by 85% of Gaza.
What I find most troubling is your apparent animus towards the Lebanese people, whom you hastily label as terrorists based solely on their residence in southern villages. This unsubstantiated vilification reflects a profound moral failing and an alarming lack of critical engagement with the complexities of the situation. I challenge you to reconsider your perspective and confront the implications of your words. May you eventually find the clarity and compassion necessary to reevaluate your position. الله يساعدك!
04 November 2024, 22:55
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The enemy already pledged to do this very thing if they're attacked from Lebanon. Returning Lebanon to the stone age was the exact quote, as I recall. Nasrallah scoffed at this and promised to do the same to Tel Aviv.
