Israel will impose what it calls a \u201cyellow line\u201d<\/a> in Lebanon, barring residents from returning to areas occupied by the Israeli military.\n <\/p>\n\n It is a tactic lifted straight from Israel\u2019s renewed occupation of Gaza\u2019s territory.\n <\/p>\n
\n There, it started out as a temporary yellow line on a map \u2013 demarcating an area occupied by the Israeli military following the Trump-brokered ceasefire last October.\n <\/p>\n
\n But after a few weeks, concrete blocks painted yellow started appearing on the ground, lending it a sense of permanence, which has only deepened. Crossing the line remains forbidden to residents, hundreds of whom have been shot dead for coming too close, Palestinian officials say.\n <\/p>\n
\n Israel\u2019s new yellow line in southern Lebanon appears similarly divisive, separating 55 towns and villages from the rest of the country.\n <\/p>\n
\n The IDF has told residents not to return, firing on people it said were approaching the yellow line on multiple occasions, and adding that it is \u201cauthorized to continue destroying terrorist infrastructures even during the ceasefire.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Much of Lebanon\u2019s south \u2013 a largely Shiite-Muslim area with a strong Hezbollah presence \u2013 had already been left damaged and depopulated after more than two years of war with Israel. But the destruction intensified after the latest offensive began on March 2.\n <\/p>\n
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\n CNN analyzed satellite imagery provided by Airbus to assess the growing scale of the damage as hostilities resumed.\n <\/p>\n
\n In the first 10 days of Israel\u2019s March offensive, CNN counted 523 buildings destroyed across 22 communities. As well as homes, CNN\u2019s analysis indicates Israeli forces have destroyed mosques, pharmacies, cafes and auto repair shops.\n <\/p>\n
\n Videos filmed by residents show controlled demolitions being carried out, while satellite imagery reveals a pattern of Israeli bulldozers and excavators operating in already heavily damaged areas, indicating ground forces moving into areas previously struck from the air.\n <\/p>\n
\n For residents of southern Lebanon, this latest war represents another chapter of displacement.\n <\/p>\n
\n 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.\n <\/p>\n
\n Hassan Rammal is one of those people.\n <\/p>\n
\n His village of Adaisseh is located right on the Israel-Lebanon border. Many of its residents, like Rammal himself, support Hezbollah.\n <\/p>\n
\n 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.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cDisplacement 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,\u201d he told CNN.\n <\/p>\n
\n Shortly after the family fled, Rammal said he got word that their home had been destroyed, likely by an airstrike.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI felt like someone stripped my soul and life of my memories,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n
\n 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.\n <\/p>\n
\n 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.\n <\/p>\n
\n 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.\n <\/p>\n
\n A satellite image captured days earlier, on March 18, showed two excavators just meters away from his property, at that point still standing, indicating it was likely demolished through Israeli bulldozing.\n <\/p>\n
\n It\u2019s 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 diggers at work in the area.\n <\/p>\n
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\n Twenty-year-old Ali Al-Abbani has only ever known Khiam and is too young to have lived through Lebanon\u2019s previous wars with Israel. \u201cThis is the first war I\u2019ve experienced, and I can\u2019t begin to describe how terrifying it is,\u201d he told CNN from Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa Valley, where he finds himself displaced, along with his parents and brother.\n <\/p>\n
\n Whenever an Israeli drone or fighter jet flies overhead, he told CNN, his body goes into shock, and he often runs for his mother\u2019s embrace. When he saw a satellite image of his home village, sent on a WhatsApp group earlier this month, it showed his home razed to the ground.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cMy mother spent the entire evening crying. I started crying\u2026all my memories are in that house, every corner,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The current ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is the second since war broke out in October 2023. After the first, in November 2024, Israel maintained a military presence in southern Lebanon, operating five Forward Operating Bases, confirmed by the IDF. What appear to be a further four Israeli positions were also established between October 2025 and January 2026, according to CNN\u2019s review of satellite imagery, though the Israeli military has not publicly confirmed these bases.\n <\/p>\n
\n Jeremy Binnie, Middle East defense specialist at Janes, a London-based defense intelligence firm, told CNN the IDF was likely expanding its presence in order \u201cto provide better visibility of Lebanese territory than existing Israeli positions on the border.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n He said this lined up with Israeli plans to occupy the new security zone for the long term, but warned that building additional positions deeper inside the country could leave Israeli soldiers \u201cmanning isolated positions exposed to inevitable insurgent attacks.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n For its part, Hezbollah says it will not recognize the ceasefire unless Israel withdraws, vowing to \u201cresist the occupation and expel it from our land.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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\n The future for 600,000 Lebanese in the south remains uncertain \u2013 both whether they will return home, and whether any homes will still be there to return to.\n <\/p>\n
\n Rammal, the 62-year-old businessman, says Lebanon has \u201cnever had a day of peace\u201d with its southern neighbor.\n <\/p>\n
\n And he scoffs at Israel\u2019s plans to occupy parts of Lebanon\u2019s south.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt says it wants to keep its country safe, while making other countries unsafe. It can say whatever it wants \u2013 there will be no buffer zone,\u201d he says.\n <\/p>\n
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