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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Damien Gayle

Lebanon accuses Israel of committing ‘ecocide’ in country since 2023

A huge cloud of dark smoke rising over farmland
Smoke from an Israeli airstrike in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon in October 2024. Photograph: Sam Skaineh/AFP/Getty Images

Lebanon’s minister for the environment has accused Israel’s military of committing “an act of ecocide” in the foreword to a report detailing the harm done to the country’s natural resources during the invasion of 2023 to 2024.

Israeli military aggression “reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape” of southern Lebanon, according to the report, which does not consider the impacts of Israel’s latest barrage of attacks this spring.

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