‘Burn the lawn’: Israel pursues ‘Rafah model’ in southern Lebanon

‘Burn the lawn’: Israel pursues ‘Rafah model’ in southern Lebanon

Israel’s defense minister said in a statement this week that Israeli forces are working to implement the “Rafah and Beit Hanoun model” in southern Lebanon, sparking fears that Israel is planning to flatten entire towns in an attempt to defeat Hezbollah once and for all.As Israel prepares its forces for a full-scale invasion, the intensity of this new approach is starting to come into focus, even as most of the world’s attention has focused on th…