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How is Israel replicating its Gaza tactics in Lebanon?
Inside StoryWidespread Israeli attacks on civilian targets in Lebanon are a repeated tactic from Gaza.Israel’s widespread destruction of housing and civilian facilities in Lebanon has driven a fifth of the population from their homes.Israel’s defence minister says tactics used in Gaza are being replicated in Lebanon. So, what are the similarities?Presenter: James BaysGuests:Ramzi Kaiss – Lebanon researcher at Human Rights WatchElijah Magnier – Specialist in Middle East wars and regional military dynamicsNicholas Noe – Editor-in-Chief of Mideastwire.com, a Beirut-based news serviceYasmine Chawaf – Global protection advocacy coordinator at Oxfam in BeirutPublished On 30 Apr 2026
Israel applies Gaza‑style tactics in Lebanon and accelerates ethnic ...
The Israeli army has tried out several names to refer to the territories it occupies in southern Lebanon: “advanced defense line,” “security zone.” It has finally settled on the one that most clearly reveals its intentions there: “Yellow Line.” In Gaza, the Yellow Line designates a supposedly temporary dividing border that separates the 52% of the Gaza Strip — now a depopulated, ruined territory — under Israeli control from the remaining 48%, held by Hamas.This is the plan the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has adopted to keep Hezbollah away from the Israel-Lebanon border. It amounts to a kind of reprise of past failed experiments — the map resembles the 6% of Lebanon that Israel occupied for 15 years until its withdrawal in 2000 — but now in a version marked by displacement and under the cover, at least on paper, of a ceasefire that was recently extended for three weeks.Israel has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers and naval forces to southern Lebanon, but not throughout the entire area. The army keeps the rest under surveillance, with the capacity to strike it. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz openly acknowledges that the objective is to wipe the border villages off the map, demolishing all the houses so that Hezbollah fighters have nowhere to hide. He said they would follow the model of Beit Hanoun and Rafah in Gaza, where the army left 90% of homes in ruins.Beyond the first line of border villages — which Israel already flattened in 2024, mainly after the signing of a ceasefire that, like the current one, neutralized Hezbollah’s opposition — the new Yellow Line prevents Lebanese residents from returning to 55 southern municipalities, forcing them to watch from afar as fire consumes their homes and their history.These actions, says Ben Saul, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, are “manifestly disproportionate” and illegal. “The forced and arbitrary displacement of civilians is a war crime, as is the mass destruction of civilian property without justification by military necessity,” he tells EL PAÍS by telephone from Sydney, Australia.On the eve of the ceasefire, Saul and other U.N. experts signed a statement denouncing Israel’s operations in southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah receives support. “The deliberate destruction of homes is a weapon of war and a form of collective punishment, particularly in Shiite areas in the rural south of the country. It also points to ethnic cleansing,” the experts warned.“I...
Mirroring Gaza, Israel is destroying towns and villages in southern Lebanon
In southern Lebanon, towns near the border with Israel have been largely destroyed by Israeli demolitions and strikes. Israel says it has been attacking Hezbollah infrastructure, but civilian infrastructure has also been significantly affected.
Israeli maps outline expanded zone of military control in Gaza
New maps of Gaza quietly issued by Israel a little more than a month ago have put thousands of displaced Palestinians inside an expanded restricted area, within boundaries the military says it can ...
