The video shows Israeli bombings of a border village in Lebanon

Video verified AFP on Monday showed powerful explosions in the south of the country Lebanese a border village where a local official said hundreds of homes had been destroyed Israel since last year.

The video, which was widely shared online on Monday, showed more than a dozen at once detonation that pierced Mays al-Jabal and leveled houses to ashes.

Similar aerial scenes were filmed in several border villages, including Mhaybib and Odaiseh, after Israel sent ground troops into southern Lebanon in late September.

Videos circulating online show houses lining the hills crumpled in a cloud of gray dust.

Israel claims it is targeting Hezbollah infrastructure near the border in an attempt to push the Lebanese group away from its northern border.

According to the town’s mayor, Abdul-Monem Choukair, a video from Mais al-Jabal taken on Monday showed powerful explosions outside the village’s vacated hospital.

The area has been hit repeatedly since Israel and Hezbollah began exchanging fire last October.

“Seventy percent of Mais al-Jebal has been destroyed,” the mayor said, adding that “the goal of the Israeli enemy is systematic destruction.”

Choukair said four people, aged between 85 and 90, were trapped in Mais el-Jabal awaiting rescue.

According to a Lebanese official National Information Agency (NNA)last month Israeli forces blew up buildings in at least seven border villages.

Israel Channel 12 Last month, footage of the broadcast appeared showing one of its presenters undermining building during the soldiers’ stay in the village of Aita al-Shaab.

Lebanon’s National Human Rights Commission said the “campaign of extermination carried out by the Israeli army in southern Lebanon is a war crime.”

Satellite images show how Israeli attacks have caused significant damage to more than a dozen villages in southern Lebanon.

Between October 2023 and October 2024, “sites were wantonly and systematically destroyed in at least eight Lebanese villages,” based on satellite images and videos posted by Israeli soldiers on social media.

As a result of Israel’s attack on Lebanon, 3,002 people died, and another 13,492 were injured.