The French Catholic charity L’Oeuvre d’Orient has said Israeli troops destroyed a convent belonging to the Salvatorian Sisters, a Greek-Catholic religious order, in southern Lebanon.
The charity strongly condemned “a deliberate attack on a place of worship,” and accused Israel of systematically demolishing homes in southern Lebanon to prevent displaced civilians from returning.
The Israeli military also said that its forces operating in the village of Yaroun had damaged a structure inside a religious compound.
“It was determined that during the forces’ operations to destroy terrorist infrastructure, one of the houses located in a religious compound was damaged,” the military’s spokesperson, Colonel Avichay Adraee, said on X on Saturday.
“There were no visible signs indicating this was a religious building,” he continued.
“Once clear identifying features were observed on another building in the compound, the forces acted to prevent any further damage to the compound.”
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