Lebanese PM condemns ‘systematic’ Israeli destruction in south of country

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemns Israel’s “systematic destruction” in the country’s south as a violation of international law, as Defense Minister Israel Katz said the IDF is “destroying all the houses” there.

Salam says 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 says in a statement.

Katz visited southern Lebanon today, vowing to keep troops in a so-called “security zone” there and saying the IDF was “destroying the underground infrastructure” in the area and “destroying all the houses.”