"The damage we see from this destruction is much more than destroying buildings. You can rebuild a house, but as a farmer, when you lose your yields over many seasons, you lose everything,” says George Mitri, director of the Land and Natural Resources programme at Lebanon’s University of Balamand"

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Cattle, crops and ancient olive groves: Lebanon’s farmers ‘lose everything’ to Israeli bombs | Global development | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/12/cattle-crops-and-ancient-olive-groves-lebanons-farmers-lose-everything-to-israeli-bombs?CMP=firstedition_email