Corey Scher is a postdoctoral researcher at the Conflict Ecology laboratory at Oregon State University, which does satellite monitoring in conflict zones. He's been studying both Gaza and southern Lebanon — and he says a similarity is starting to emerge between the two.
"Previously damaged areas in Lebanon are now being completely leveled. And it looks like what Gaza looked like, when we also saw a complete leveling," he says. "The striking part for me, and a commonality, is that you just see large swaths of towns, villages being effectively wiped off the map."
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Israel has also been striking crucial infrastructure like bridges in southern Lebanon, taking out every major crossing over the Litani River heading to the south during the past two months of war. In the final hours before this current temporary ceasefire was announced, an Israeli strike hit the coastal Qasmiyeh bridge, the last remaining crossing to the south.
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Humanitarian organizations have also noted that critical water infrastructure has been hit by Israel — again a documented pattern in Gaza as well, and something NPR has reported Israel doing in past wars in Lebanon.
In a statement in March, Oxfam warned that Israeli forces were "using the Gaza playbook in Lebanon," noting extensive damage to water infrastructure, but also electricity networks and bridges, "cutting off vital supplies and services for entire towns and villages."
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