Israeli forces destroyed most homes in Lebanon’s Tayr Harfa: Report
A correspondent with Lebanon’s National News Agency, who visited the southern Lebanese town of Tayr Harfa days after Israeli forces pulled out from the area, is reporting extensive destruction there.
The correspondent said Israeli forces have “bombed and burned” most of the houses in the town, and destroyed or damaged olive fields and fruit trees there, too.
The Lebanese army deployed soldiers to Tayr Harfa last week, and civil defence crews are now at work in the town to search for missing people and to remove rubble and open roads.
Earlier, the NNA reported that emergency workers had retrieved the body of one person from Tayr Harfa on Saturday.
The Israeli pullout from Tayr Harfa comes after it agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah following more than a year of war. The US-brokered 60-day truce calls for a phased Israeli military pullout and for Hezbollah to withdraw north of the Litani River, about 30km (19 miles) from the Israeli border, in line with a UN Security Council resolution from 2006 that ended their last major conflict.
A man walks among the rubble in the town of Derdghaiya, Tyre, Lebanon, on November 29, 2024, after Israeli forces destroyed roads, houses, schools, mosques, and buildings there
Israeli forces positioned near south Lebanon town: Report
Israeli forces operating with a Merkava tank and two Hummer vehicles have reached the northern outskirts of the town of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese National News Agency reports.
It added that the forces have positioned themselves near a house and an army patrol has moved towards the villages of Wadi Khansa and Rayhana Bari. More details are awaited.
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