Israel Razes Naqoura After Ceasefire, Displacing Ali to Beirut Rooftop

In Naqoura, in southern Lebanon, Ali said that after the Israeli military withdrew from the town as part of a ceasefire agreement, it left behind detonated homes, a graffiti-laden school, and power lines pulled out of the ground.

“Beirut, Lebanon – In February 2025, Ali stood outside his house in Naqoura, in southern Lebanon, and pointed at the crack in the foundation and fruit trees pulled up by the Israeli military”

Al Jazeera

More than a year later, the Al Jazeera report says Israel has completely razed the area of Naqoura, and Ali, who was forced to flee when the Israelis invaded again in March, traded his garden and family home by the sea for a room on a rooftop in the heart of Beirut.

Al Jazeera

Ali said, “We had 20 good years,” roughly referring to the period between the end of the 2000 Israeli occupation and the start of hostilities on October 8, 2023.

The report adds that since March 2, Israel intensified its war on Lebanon for a second time in less than two years, responding to Hezbollah firing rockets by re-invading southern Lebanon and striking targets all across the country.

Al Jazeera also reports that Israel has killed 4,257 people in Lebanon and wounded more than 12,000 more, and that more than 1.2 million people were displaced at the peak of Israel’s attacks.

Basma Alloush of the International Rescue Committee told Al Jazeera that “When a village is flattened, and even the landmarks around it are gone, people lose more than their homes.”

Alloush said that this kind of grief has “nowhere to land, because the past itself feels erased along with the place that held it.”

Al-Manar TV Lebanon

The Al Jazeera report quotes Davide Musardo, a clinical psychologist with Doctors Without Borders, saying residents from the devastated strip often lost “reference points” to where their homes were.

Musardo said that many of his patients who tried to return to their homes in Gaza after the ceasefire there told him that they “didn’t recognise where they were because everything was destroyed” and ended up feeling lost.

In parallel, the Lebanese Ministry of Health, as cited by Al Jazeera, said the death toll from the Israeli aggression against Lebanon has risen to 4,297 martyrs and 12,196 injured since March 2.

L'Orient-Le Jour’s live updates say WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for the immediate cessation of Israeli attacks on health facilities in Lebanon after a strike on an ambulance from a Hezbollah-affiliated rescue service killed two medics in Bint Jbeil.

“Key Events Updates Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan rejected what he called "the weaponization of the Armenian Genocide," adding that he saw no need to respond to Israel's recognition of the massacre”

Haaretz

The WHO chief said, “Attacks on health facilities must stop immediately. This cannot become the norm.”

L'Orient-Le Jour also reports that the Health Ministry said a medic killed earlier in the day brought to 52 the number of health workers and health staff killed since the war began.

In the same live updates, L'Orient-Le Jour says Hezbollah claimed it fired a surface-to-air missile at a helicopter over Naqoura, adding that the missile forced it to turn back.

Al-Manar TV Lebanon’s report says the Israeli enemy continued on Wednesday violating the ceasefire, launching several attacks on South Lebanon towns and villages, and it cites the cumulative death toll between March 2 and July 1 as 4,297 people martyred and 12,196 injured.