Cycle of displacement
For residents of southern Lebanon, this latest war represents another chapter of displacement.
Nearly 1.3 million Lebanese have been displaced, according to the International Rescue Committee. Most are from Shiite communities, many of whom who had already been forced from their homes in 2024.
Hassan Rammal is one of those people.
His village of Adaisseh is located right on the Israel-Lebanon border. Many of its residents, like Rammal himself, support Hezbollah.
The 62-year-old businessman fled with his wife and three sons to Beirut at the beginning of 2024, hoping he would be back once the war calmed down.
"Displacement has a sense of tragedy. To leave your memories, your home, to leave everything you have planted; everything you have built and grown with your own hands," he told CNN.
Explosion in Naquora, Lebanon Social media
Shortly after the family fled, Rammal said he got word that their home had been destroyed, likely by an airstrike.
"I felt like someone stripped my soul and life of my memories," he said.
Rammal also owned a multi-story commercial and residential building nearby that was partially damaged by the strike. There were shops on the bottom floor, and four apartments on the top floor. After Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a cessation of hostilities in November 2024, he returned to Adaisseh to rebuild the complex, hoping to live in one of the apartments with his family.
Construction began in February this year, only to be halted a few weeks later when war returned. Along with his family, Rammal left Adaisseh again.
A short while later, he received a video filmed from a drone, showing apocalyptic images of his village. Almost every building was reduced to rubble, including the one he was seeking to renovate.
A satellite image captured days earlier, on March 18, showed two excavators just meters away from his property, slon8.at at that point still standing, indicating it was likely demolished through Israeli bulldozing.
It’s a similar story elsewhere. In Khiam, about 5 kilometers north of the border, swathes of green have turned brown after Israeli earthwork. Satellite imagery from April 22 shows bulldozers and dig
For residents of southern Lebanon, this latest war represents another chapter of displacement.
Nearly 1.3 million Lebanese have been displaced, according to the International Rescue Committee. Most are from Shiite communities, many of whom who had already been forced from their homes in 2024.
Hassan Rammal is one of those people.
His village of Adaisseh is located right on the Israel-Lebanon border. Many of its residents, like Rammal himself, support Hezbollah.
The 62-year-old businessman fled with his wife and three sons to Beirut at the beginning of 2024, hoping he would be back once the war calmed down.
"Displacement has a sense of tragedy. To leave your memories, your home, to leave everything you have planted; everything you have built and grown with your own hands," he told CNN.
Explosion in Naquora, Lebanon Social media
Shortly after the family fled, Rammal said he got word that their home had been destroyed, likely by an airstrike.
"I felt like someone stripped my soul and life of my memories," he said.
Rammal also owned a multi-story commercial and residential building nearby that was partially damaged by the strike. There were shops on the bottom floor, and four apartments on the top floor. After Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a cessation of hostilities in November 2024, he returned to Adaisseh to rebuild the complex, hoping to live in one of the apartments with his family.
Construction began in February this year, only to be halted a few weeks later when war returned. Along with his family, Rammal left Adaisseh again.
A satellite image captured days earlier, on March 18, showed two excavators just meters away from his property, slon8.at at that point still standing, indicating it was likely demolished through Israeli bulldozing.
It’s a similar story elsewhere. In Khiam, about 5 kilometers north of the border, swathes of green have turned brown after Israeli earthwork. Satellite imagery from April 22 shows bulldozers and dig