50,000 Lebanese homes damaged or destroyed in Israeli attacks

Israeli attacks on Lebanon during its latest war with Hezbollah damaged or destroyed more than 50,000 housing units in the country, a government estimate says.

“Within about 45 days (of the war), we had 17,756 destroyed housing units and 32,668 damaged housing units,” Chadi Abdallah, head of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), told AFP news agency.

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 2,400 people and displaced more than one million since the fighting began on March 2.

“The aggression that extended between 2023 and 2025, which is in fact an aggression that did not stop, left behind enormous destruction at various levels,” Lebanese Environment Minister Tamara Zein said at a news conference.

She added that “more than 220,000 housing units were damaged and destroyed” during that period.

Israel’s strikes did not spare residential neighbourhoods, civilian infrastructure or places of worship, and resulted in damage to large agricultural and forested areas, said Zein.