Lebanese Firefighters Accuse Israel of Intentionally Causing Fires During Strikes
Israeli drones and artillery ignited fires across forested and mountainous areas as home demolitions continued in several southern towns, officials and reporters said.
- Overnight into Sunday, Israeli forces carried out detonations in Zawtar Sharqieh and other southern towns, while drones dropped incendiary materials sparking widespread fires across forested areas and mountains in the western Bekaa.
- Israeli officials have said they aim to apply the 'Gaza model' to Lebanon, deploying attacks that destroyed 90% of civilian infrastructure in Gaza since October 2023, with Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz recently boasting of destroying 24 villages.
- Hisham Younes, founder of Green Southerners conservation group, told The Guardian that Israeli bombing amounts to 'ecocide,' progressively eroding ecosystems while destroying centuries-old olive trees and livelihoods.
- Hezbollah condemned the fires Sunday, accusing Israel of 'environmental extermination' and criticizing Lebanese authorities for failing to pursue legal action against Israel before international bodies.
- Lebanon will not participate in the next round of direct negotiations, expected in early September, unless Israel accepts conditions including a full cease-fire and an end to ongoing destruction.
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Lebanese firefighters accuse Israel of intentionally causing fires during strikes
“Most of our missions are now related to fires,” Hussein Fakih, the head of the civil defense in the Nabatiya region, told the Guardian. “There are enormous areas of woodland that have burned."
Israel deliberately setting southern Lebanon ablaze – firefighters to Guardian
Firefighters have said Israeli drones and munitions have repeatedly sparked blazes in forests, olive groves and farmland since the June ceasefire Lebanese firefighters have accused Israel of intentionally igniting wildfires across southern Lebanon using drones and various munitions. They reported to the Guardian that both drones and incendiary weapons have been repeatedly employed to set...
The Financial Times newspaper revealed in a report the Zionist regime's deliberate attempt to destroy southern Lebanon and make it uninhabitable, and announced the destruction of 20,000 homes in these areas.
Firefighters and residents of southern Lebanon have accused the Israeli military of deliberately starting forest fires, as forested areas have burned due to fires sparked by Israeli bombings.
Firefighters, local residents, and environmental groups in South Lebanon accuse the Israeli army of deliberately causing forest fires. The use of flares, incendiary bombs, and white phosphorus is allegedly destroying nature, farmland, and olive groves on a large scale.
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