I read a book by an Israeli soldier, albeit deployed in Gaza, not Lebanon, that clearing areas was simply standard procedure. Say they needed an axis for heavy vehicles, or lines of sight around a firing position, whatever, they would raze everything around.
Settler violence has become so bad that fucking Mike Huckabee is calling it “a horrific act of terror”:
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/13/g-s1-138574/us-west-bank-settlers
On Thursday morning, the owner’s brother Qusai Abu Rida said that he and his teenage son had been evacuated by Israel’s military. It was unclear what would happen to the property and at least one other that has been targeted.
Israeli troops intervened in recent days to try to restore order. The military said that overnight Thursday its troops had dismantled “two illegal outposts” on the outskirts of Qusra and a nearby village, and detained one Israeli.
And returned the home owners and family to their home? And apologized and tidied the place up?
Naah. More like destroy their property including defacing their religious posessions.
It says that the army have kicked the residents out, and are using their houses as barracks (which, according to a book I read written by someone in Gaza, means the contents of the homes end up thoroughly and extensively trashed):
Not for nothing did we ratify the Third Amendment…