Southern Lebanon: BBC sees air strike destruction in deserted towns - BBC News

Residents who fled from the border can only watch as their homes are turned into craters.

15 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage caption, Homes have been destroyed in towns and villages across south LebanonBy Carine TorbeyBBC Arabic, BeirutSpiralling tensions and cross-border strikes which have killed more than 70 civilians in Lebanon have turned parts of the south into ghost towns. Residents have fled, leaving their homes at risk of destruction. The BBC went on patrol with the UN's peacekeeping force there to see what has happened.

The huge crater containing a mangled mattress buried under a pile of dust and stone is all that's left of the building that stood on this spot just days ago.

"We call it 'the pool'," said a Lebanese army officer at Yarine - a border town on the front line of the one of the region's most dangerous conflict zones.

Yarine is just 1km (0.6 miles) from the UN-designated Blue Line - the highly volatile, unofficial boundary between Israel and Lebanon.

In every town near the line, there are similar sights: buildings levelled or vanished into craters; next to them, buildings which have been damaged, then rows of houses intact - followed by more craters.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68927288

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