Simona Foltyn:
The IDF said it hit around 360 — quote — “terrorist structures” in Dahiyeh before the cease-fire went into effect on November 27. These strikes decimated Hezbollah’s top echelon, but they also killed scores of civilians and wreaked havoc on civilian infrastructure, which is forbidden under international law.
Dahiyeh is considered a Hezbollah stronghold, but it’s also a sprawling suburb, home to around a million people, many of whom support the group. There’s a sense here that Israeli strikes did not just target Hezbollah’s leadership and fighters, but also its Shia constituency.
Experts at the American University of Beirut are calling Israel’s bombardment of Dahiyeh an urbicide the deliberate obliteration of urban fabric.
Professor Mona Fawaz is part of a team mapping the impact.
Mona Fawaz, American University of Beirut: We’re seeing massive destruction to civilian infrastructure. That’s very clear and certainly much broader than what we saw back in 2006.
