Israel has been conducting a ground offensive against the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah since September 30.
"Since this morning, the Israeli enemy army has been detonating explosives inside the villages of Yaroun, Aïtaroun and Maroun al-Ras, in the Bint Jbeil region, with the aim of destroying residential houses there," Ani reported, as quoted by Agence France Presse.
The president of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Sidon and South Lebanon, Mohamad Saleh, warned that agricultural production has been severely affected by the conflict in the region, while the lack of air transport seriously limits export possibilities.
In the province of South Lebanon, one of the two worst hit by a year of conflict and, in particular, by the last six weeks of Israeli air offensive, tourism and agriculture have been the sectors most affected by economic losses, Saleh explained in an interview with the Spanish news agency EFE.
"The sectors most affected during this crisis are mainly agriculture and tourism, followed by industry. But above all agriculture and tourism, because Lebanese agricultural production is exported and all means of export are closed," Saleh lamented.
