Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Wednesday that Israeli forces occupied and vandalized schools in Lebanon in acts that amounted to war crimes. HRW visited seven schools in Lebanon between January and March 2025 and documented “damage and destruction to the schools as well as the surrounding villages.” HRW cautions that Israel’s pillaging of Lebanese schools constitutes war crimes .

According to the report:

Human Rights Watch found evidence—including Israeli food items, other trash with Hebrew writing, and Hebrew graffiti on school walls and classroom boards—indicating that Israeli forces occupied five of seven of the schools visited, all except for the schools in Aitaroun and Bani Hayyan, which had also been damaged.

Israel remains in ongoing conflict with Hezbollah , the Le

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