Israeli attacks on Lebanon during its latest conflict with Hezbollah damaged or destroyed more than 62,000 housing units in the country, a government estimate has found, according to AFP.

“Within about 45 days [of the war], we had 21,700 destroyed housing units and 40,500 damaged housing units,” Chadi Abdallah, head of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), has said in a press conference.

Despite an ongoing 10-day truce that started on Friday, Israeli forces have continued to demolish and blow up homes in southern Lebanese towns they currently occupy, according to Lebanese authorities, eyewitnesses, and photographs taken by AFP from the Israeli side.

CNRS estimates that “428 housing units were destroyed and 50 were damaged” during the first three days of the ceasefire, Abdallah says.

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