A man standing amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following strikes on the town of Naqura in southern Lebanon close to the border with northern Israel. — AFP
THE border between Israel and Lebanon has become a landscape of abandoned towns and neglected farms as escalating tensions and tit-for-tat strikes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters have displaced more than 150,000 people in both countries.
Prospects for an end to the cross-border hostilities have grown only dimmer since the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in a suburb of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, fed growing fears of a wider war. The strike in early January has been widely ascribed to Israel.
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Abandoned town
Israelis evacuated from near the Lebanese border sit at a hotel in Tiberias, Israel. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
Israelis evacuated from near the Lebanese border sit at a hotel in Tiberias, Israel, in Nov. 8, 2023. (Avishag ShaarYashuv/The New York Times)
The evacuated Kibbutz Dafna in northern Israel, about a kilometre away from the border with Lebanon. — AFP
Mourners carry the coffin of Hamas' deputy leader, Saleh Arouri, killed on Jan 2, 2024 in a strike in Beirut's southern suburbs, during his funeral procession in Lebanon's capital on Jan 4, 2024. — AFP
