Lebanon: Israeli Forces Occupied, Vandalized Schools

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Damage to a classroom in Naqqoura Intermediate Public School, Lebanon, January 31, 2025. © 2025 Human Rights Watch Israeli forces occupied schools in southern Lebanon during hostilities between September and November 2024 and in the following weeks, used some of them as barracks, and appear to have intentionally vandalized, pillaged, and destroyed school property.The hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah have had a devastating impact on children’s access to education and pillaging of at least two of the schools appears to amount to war crimes.International donors…

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