Psychological toll mounts as Lebanese villages erased by Israel’s war
Key takeaways
- Displaced Lebanese face a void as war annihilates the physical and emotional anchors of their past and identity.
- The Israeli military had recently withdrawn from the town as part of a ceasefire agreement, but had left behind detonated homes, a graffiti-laden school, and power lines pulled out of the ground.
- But a little more than a year later, Israel has completely razed the area of Naqoura, one of many towns and villages in southern Lebanon that the Israeli military has made completely uninhabitable.
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Displaced Lebanese face a void as war annihilates the physical and emotional anchors of their past and identity.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Civilians stand outside their homes destroyed in Naqoura, southern Lebanon, in February 2025 [Raghed Waked/Al Jazeera]By Justin Salhani Published On 1 Jul 20261 Jul 2026Beirut, Lebanon – In February 2025, Ali stood outside his house in Naqoura, in southern Lebanon, and pointed at the crack in the foundation and fruit trees pulled up by the Israeli military.
The Israeli military had recently withdrawn from the town as part of a ceasefire agreement, but had left behind detonated homes, a graffiti-laden school, and power lines pulled out of the ground. Ali, an elderly man from the town, said at the time that he would fix it all.