Lina Mounzer Essayist, Translator & Senior Editor The Markaz Review Israel is erasing entire villages in southern Lebanon from the map. Not just airstrikes, but forced expulsions & bombing. They send in troops to lace buildings with explosives. Military bulldozer operators are paid per building destroyed. Entire towns - streets, trees, history built over generations - gone. The south is the agricultural heartland of Lebanon. Over one million people live there. But coverage focuses on Beirut. Now that Beirut has been declared neutral, the ongoing daily massacres in the south - and the systematic destruction of the so-called buffer zone - are going largely unreported. FULL INTERVIEW https://youtu.be/V7EqbhB-cMo