Lebanon says farmland area roughly size of Chicago destroyed in Israeli offensive

Lebanon’s Agriculture Ministry said Friday that Israel’s ongoing offensive has damaged more than 56,000 hectares of farmland — an area roughly the size of Chicago or about 78,000 football fields — and killed more than 1.8 million poultry and livestock, Anadolu Agency reports. The destroyed farmland includes more than 18,500 hectares in the south, where Israeli army jets and drones have carried out relentless airstrikes, the ministry said in a statement. The statement said the damage was largely concentrated in conflict zones in southern Lebanon, which account for 22.5% of all agricultural land damaged across the country. The damage in 64 southern towns affected farmland, irrigation networks and facilities linked to agriculture and food production. Small farmers were hit the […]