Extensive destruction in Aita al-Shaab, South Lebanon, on Jan. 28, 2025. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L’Orient Today)
Yasser Shamoun, a member of the municipal council in the village of Khiam (Marjayoun), paints a rather positive picture of developments related to the clearing of debris left from over a year of Israeli strikes. Speaking to L’Orient-Le Jour, he says that “all neighborhoods have been cleared except for one, for it is too close to an Israeli position,” and therefore too dangerous to reach.Qalawieh (Sour) faces a similar situation, where “Contractors commissioned by the Council for the South handled the removal of residential debris, while the municipality cleared the roads with a loan of around $7,000 from the Council for the South,” according to Mohammad Abi Khalil, president of the municipal council. The long road to recovery In Lebanon, the delayed start to clearing war debris After months of delay, in most villages of southern...
Yasser Shamoun, a member of the municipal council in the village of Khiam (Marjayoun), paints a rather positive picture of developments related to the clearing of debris left from over a year of Israeli strikes. Speaking to L’Orient-Le Jour, he says that “all neighborhoods have been cleared except for one, for it is too close to an Israeli position,” and therefore too dangerous to reach.Qalawieh (Sour) faces a similar situation, where “Contractors commissioned by the Council for the South handled the removal of residential debris, while the municipality cleared the roads with a loan of around $7,000 from the Council for the South,” according to Mohammad Abi Khalil, president of the municipal council. The long road to recovery In Lebanon, the delayed start to clearing war debris After months of delay, in most villages of...
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