When Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on March 2, two days after Israel and the United States launched a war on Iran, the resulting Israeli operation to destroy the group quickly became a mission to flatten swathes of southern Lebanon.
As Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes across the country, soldiers seized more territory in the south. Ground operations began to take on the appearance of those seen in Gaza: bulldozers tearing down buildings and demolitions razing whole villages to the ground.
Even after last week’s ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, those ground operations have continued.
A CNN review of satellite imagery reveals the scale of the destruction.
Hundreds of buildings – most of which appear to be homes – have been either completely flattened or rendered uninhabitable.
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