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Good. [IsraelTimes] Financial Times analysis of satellite imagery shows extensive destruction of structures, but IDF says it is only targeting Hezbollah, which admits to using civilian homes
Israel Defense Forces strikes in southern Leb
 ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, responding to near-daily attacks by the Hezbollah terror group, have created a "dead zone" around 5 kilometers (3 miles) deep along the border with Israel, The Financial Times reported Thursday, citing data gleaned from aerial photographs.
"Near-daily aerial bombardment, artillery shelling and the incendiary chemical white phosphorus have made much of the 5 kilometers north of the Blue Line uninhabitable," the report claimed.
The Financial Times analyzed data from commercial satellites with research from the CUNY Graduate Center and Oregon State University to detect changes to buildings.
According to the report, only "handfuls" of Lebanese civilians remain in the area, with most buildings empty and many destroyed. The analysis identified 1,500 badly damaged structures, although this figure was considered a "conservative lower-bound estimate." A Lebanese official, Hashem Haidar, told The Financial Times that 3,000 homes in the country’s south have been completely leveled, and 12,000 have incurred medium-level damage.
Haidar added that Israeli strikes have thoroughly damaged civilian infrastructure. "The type of weaponry that’s being used is different from what we saw in 2006," he told The Financial Times. "Before, when a house was bombed, the damage would be confined to the house and its immediate surroundings. Now, there are entire neighborhoods that are being affected by one bombing."
Call it "The tunnel effect"
Haidar also said 12,000 square kilometers (7,456 square miles) of agricultural land have been destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces’s use of white phosphorus. The IDF denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
Guess that's different than flaming balloons
saying their use of the substance is consistent with international law and it is not used for incendiary purposes, but rather to create smokescreens.
In total, Haidar estimated the cost of damages exceeded $1.7 billion.
The report quoted Mohammad Srour, the mayor of Ayta ash-Shab, as saying that the strikes amount to "systematic destruction." The analysis showed 292 buildings were damaged in the southern Lebanese village.
A senior IDF official denied the conclusions of the analysis, telling The Financial Times: "This is not a buffer zone."
"We just want Hezbollah pushed back. We don’t have an issue with [UN peacekeeping troops], [Lebanese Armed Forces] or Lebanese civilians staying there... But we have to ’clean out’ the area of Hezbollah’s presence," the official added. "They pose a direct threat to Israeli homes via sniper fire, anti-tank guided missiles, cross-border attack and other means. This is a tactical need to provide security for Israeli residents.
"Every third home in south Lebanon is used by Hezbollah for weapons storage, training, firing positions and meeting points for a possible cross-border attack."
The report added that some of the 95,000 evacuated Lebanese civilians from the south take advantage of funerals of Hezbollah bully boyz to visit their homes, as it is understood that Israel does not strike areas during an internment.
During these visits, they are heartbroken by the sites, with one local mayor telling The Financial Times, "There are neighborhoods that look like Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
." Eight residents told The Financial Times that their homes were struck within hours of their visit, allegedly a warning by the IDF not to return.
The report quoted Hezbollah bully boyz as saying that they use abandoned civilian homes to shelter and store weapons, and that these homes have been targeted by Israeli strikes.
The FT article did not mention the damage caused to homes in Israel from daily Hezbollah attacks or the thousands of Israelis who have had to evacuate their homes.
Under United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
Security Council Resolution 1701, adopted in 2006 to bring an end to the war between Israel and Hezbollah terrorists, UN peacekeepers were deployed to monitor a ceasefire along the 120-kilometer (75-mile) demarcation line, or Blue Line, between Israel and Lebanon.
The resolution also called for Hezbollah to withdraw its forces behind the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of the border with Israel— a demand the terror group has ignored.
The report quotes an unnamed Hezbollah terrorist as saying, "Asking us to withdraw from the south is like asking a fish not to swim in the sea."
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 15 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 349 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 64 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed. 
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