Amnesty International revealed that the area to which Israel has banned return now covers around 6% of Lebanon’s territory, referring to vast areas along the southern border.
This raises questions about the legal and security status of these areas, as well as residents’ right to return.
This reality is the direct result of a military course initiated by Hezbollah outside the authority of the state, opening a confrontation that Lebanon’s institutions neither decided on nor had the capacity to manage its consequences.
Today, the Lebanese are paying the price of this equation: land outside effective state control, residents barred from returning, and a state bearing the cost of a war it did not choose.
