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Post ceasefire demolitions scar southern Lebanon

Months after a November 2024 ceasefire, southern Lebanese villages like Hula remain in ruins. Residents recount Israeli demolitions, a shattered memorial daubed with anti Shia graffiti, and cemeteries bulldozed, as curtains flap over crushed homes and a guitar neck juts from concrete. Lebanon’s research council tallied nearly 500 houses destroyed after the truce in three border villages; U.N. peacekeepers logged 405 Israeli attacks and one from Lebanon. The U.N. rights office cites at least 103 Lebanese civilian deaths. Israel says it targets Hezbollah in populated areas and denies striking civilians. Displaced families fear losing their land and history.

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