The United States has expressed concern over the destruction of villages in Lebanon following the emergence of footage showing Israeli forces apparently blowing up a historic town in the south of the country. The video released by the Israeli military depicted multiple blasts near numerous buildings in the town of Mhaibib in the Nabatiyeh governate, located approximately 2 kilometers from the border with Israel.
One of the videos also showed the shrine of Prophet Benjamin, a site of religious, historic, and touristic significance believed to be over 2,000 years old, enveloped in smoke. The current state of the shrine could not be verified.
