Vehicles of UNIFIL drive by the rubble of destroyed buildings in the village of Yaroun, in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, on Feb. 19, 2025. (Credit: Fadel Itani/AFP)
"Thank God, no one was inside when the strikes hit." Speaking by phone, Mohammad Chahine tries to find a silver lining amid the barrage of strikes that targeted his village in southern Lebanon late Sunday night, just before midnight."The people who had been sleeping in these prefabricated houses had gone to their neighbors' homes since iftar," the mukhtar of Yaroun (Bint Jbeil) tells L'Orient-Le Jour. Yaroun, one of the Lebanese border villages most devastated by the Israeli army, had only seen the Israeli troops withdraw on Feb. 18."Since our return, this is the first time we've heard enemy helicopters so close and seen them strike the village," he continues. "They fired six missiles in total, destroying prefabricated houses where displaced residents were living, another that housed...
"Thank God, no one was inside when the strikes hit." Speaking by phone, Mohammad Chahine tries to find a silver lining amid the barrage of strikes that targeted his village in southern Lebanon late Sunday night, just before midnight."The people who had been sleeping in these prefabricated houses had gone to their neighbors' homes since iftar," the mukhtar of Yaroun (Bint Jbeil) tells L'Orient-Le Jour. Yaroun, one of the Lebanese border villages most devastated by the Israeli army, had only seen the Israeli troops withdraw on Feb. 18."Since our return, this is the first time we've heard enemy helicopters so close and seen them strike the village," he continues. "They fired six missiles in total, destroying prefabricated houses where displaced residents were living, another that housed...