Lebanese PM says Israel breaching international law as Katz boasts of ‘destroying all houses’

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Wednesday condemned what he said was Israel’s “systematic destruction” in the country’s south, calling it a violation of international law, as Defense Minister Israel Katz said its military was “destroying all the houses” there.Salam said Israeli “attacks, incursions, demolitions and the systematic destruction of homes,” infrastructure, government buildings and places of worship “represent a serious violation of the principles and rules of international law and international humanitarian law.”Claiming that villages and towns “are entirely ‘military facilities’ does not stand up to any logic and cannot be used as an excuse for destroying them, displacing their inhabitants and preventing them from returning,” he said in a statement.Katz visited southern Lebanon on Wednesday, vowing to keep troops in the IDF’s buffer zone there and saying the military was “destroying the underground infrastructure” in the area and “destroying all the houses in the area.”“We are here above…
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accused Israel of “systematic destruction” in southern Lebanon, calling it a serious violation of international law. This condemnation came as Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stated the military was “destroying all the houses in the area” and underground infrastructure, vowing a long-term presence. Lebanon’s army reported Israeli forces blew up municipal buildings, a school, a clinic, and homes in villages like Zawtar al-Shariqya. Meanwhile, firefighters in Lebanon alleged that the IDF is intentionally starting fires in dense vegetation along the border, reportedly to aid in identifying infiltrators. Separately, Lebanon’s parliament passed a general amnesty law, allowing families of former South Lebanon Army fighters who fled to Israel in 2000 to return to Lebanon.
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