Israel destroys solar panels supplying electric and water to Southern Lebanon
Israel has destroyed solar panels which supply electricity to Debel, [Lebanon](https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/04/23/lebanon-journalist-casualties/), and power its water station.
> Israel: A nation of remorseless parasites.
>
> Here they are destroying solar panels that power Debel, Lebanon, and its water station. For fun. <https://t.co/t81xo2V5nJ>
>
> — Zionism Exposed (@ZionismExposedx) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/ZionismExposedx/status/2048046401435717987)
Debel is the same Christian village where an Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) soldier [destroyed](https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/04/22/jesus-statue-black-brown-lives/) a statue of Jesus, only last week.
> After a completely manufactured display of ‘remorse’ over the desecration of a cross in the southern Lebanese village of Debel, Israeli forces are demolishing parts of the border town, bulldozing solar panels that supply electricity and power its water station. [pic.twitter.com/q82UXaYgNd](https://t.co/q82UXaYgNd)
>
> — roqayah chamseddine (@roqchams) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/roqchams/status/2048040607939985460)
Once again, the IOF [claims](https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-investigating-after-footage-shows-soldiers-damaging-solar-panels-in-south-lebanon-town/) it is investigating — but we all know what it means when Israel ‘investigates’ its own war crimes.
It’s also worth pointing out that the IOF wouldn’t even be pretending to investigate if it were a Muslim village.
> There are people out there who are fine with the Israelis demolishing south Lebanon as long as they spare the Christian villages.
>
> Well guess what guys, they’re not sparing the Christian villages  <https://t.co/ciJ00kCDrv>
>
> — Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/2048044225829204259)
No doubt that Israel is about to tell us that the solar panels were Hezbollah infrastructure. Were they using them to charge their phones and play Club Penguin?
Israel — the ethnic cleansing continues
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Israel has repeatedly [claimed](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy66e20j531o) that it does not target civilian infrastructure. Despite this, there is a clear and documented pattern of the IOF flattening [railways,](https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/04/07/israel-railways/) [schools](https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/03/06/iran-school-bombing-investigations/), hospitals, water [desalination plants](https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2025/08/25/israel-water/) and electric supplies. Clearly, the IOF is attempting to make it impossible for the people of Gaza, and now Lebanon, to survive.
And there’s a word for that.
Now, Israel is systematically destroying parts of Southern Lebanon, no doubt as part of its goal to create a ‘Greater Israel’.
> If you didn’t know, Israel is carrying out Nakba 3.0 in Lebanon. It is \*self-admittedly\* genocide, permanent land theft and ethnic cleansing to create Greater Israel. The Zionists intend to keep this land forever and massacre or displace everyone on it in the process. <https://t.co/vlBmkYJFVe>
>
> — Kit Klarenberg (@KitKlarenberg) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/KitKlarenberg/status/2048092530038682023)
Israel’s ‘Greater Israel project’ was formally established in 1967. This was only one month after Israel illegally [annexed](https://www.britannica.com/event/Six-Day-War) the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War.
According to [*Middle East Eye*](https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/what-greater-israel):
> It is often understood as a vision of territorial expansion to encompass Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, along with significant parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
This tells us that the current attacks on Lebanon are not some new attempt to disarm Hezbollah. They are part of a prolonged and systematic colonial attempt to invade and steal the land.
Ecocide
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The IOF has already [destroyed](https://www.asparagusmagazine.com/articles/solar-panels-power-war-ravaged-gaza-where-electricity-is-cut-off-and-infrastructure-destroyed) 90% of all solar panels in Gaza, leaving the power system in ruins and the people of Gaza with no stable supply of electricity. Now, it is committing similar crimes in Lebanon.
We are already in the middle of a global climate catastrophe; meanwhile, ‘God’s chosen people’ are destroying solar panels?
Israel [claims](https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/environment-at-a-glance-country-notes_59ce6fe6-en/israel_8321d563-en.html#%3A%7E%3Atext=Israel%27s+greenhouse+gas+%28GHG%29+emissions%2Cretail+rates+among+OECD+countries.) to be a leader in environmental technology, but environmentalism without anti-zionism is simply gardening.
> Environmentalism without anti-Zionism and anti-imperialism is just gardening. <https://t.co/hfTZlTnPo8>
>
> — Ted Rutland (@TedRutland) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/TedRutland/status/2048061854589604330)
Additionally, what’s the good in claiming to be a leader in [environmentalism](https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/11/29/lebanon-israels-ecocide-turns-southern-green-spaces-to-ash/) whilst dropping [200,000 tonnes](https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/10/08/200000-tonnes-of-explosives-dropped-on-gaza-equivalent-to-6-nuclear-bombs/) of explosives filled with toxic fumes on civilians? That’s the equivalent of six Hiroshimas.
Not to mention the continuous use of [white phosphorus](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/25/israel-white-phosphorus-south-lebanon-researchers) which [unlawful under international law](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/lebanon-evidence-of-israels-unlawful-use-of-white-phosphorus-in-southern-lebanon-as-cross-border-hostilities-escalate/) and the huge and lingering environmental impact of it.
By early 2024, Israel had already [destroyed](https://www.tni.org/en/article/ecocide-imperialism-and-palestine-liberation) a huge part of Gaza’s farmland, wiping out orchards, greenhouses, and crops, which are all vital for survival in Gaza. It had [decimated](https://www.tni.org/en/article/ecocide-imperialism-and-palestine-liberation) the majority of farms and orchards, with munitions and toxins now contaminating Gaza’s soil and groundwater.
Similarly, seawater is full of sewage and waste because Israel cut off electricity and destroyed water treatment plants.
It is clear that from the start, Israel [has used](https://www.tni.org/en/article/ecocide-imperialism-and-palestine-liberation) environmental harm as a weapon of control and erasure. Now, it is a core feature of its settler-colonial terrorism.
> Demolishing solar panels, all part and parcel of the ecocidal tendencies of a colonial power. <https://t.co/dheCkDIDpW>
>
> — nell | 累 (@nellodee) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/nellodee/status/2048084933089046639)
Systematic destruction
----------------------
It has become clear that destruction is so deeply embedded in the minds of Israeli’s that they didn’t even think to make use of the solar panels on the land they will no doubt attempt to occupy. So much for an ‘environmental leader’.
We have watched Israel systematically destroy electricity and water supplies throughout Gaza. Now, it’s doing the same in Southern Lebanon. People cannot survive without clean water or power, and that is exactly what the terrorists in Israel are counting on.
The fight for Palestinian and Lebanese freedom is [inherently tied](https://www.tni.org/en/article/ecocide-imperialism-and-palestine-liberation) to the survival of the Earth and humanity. There cannot be one without the other.
*Feature image via [Heidi Pett/X](https://x.com/heidipett/status/2048086176586690783)*
By [HG](https://www.thecanary.co/author/hg/)
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Israel has destroyed solar panels which supply electricity to Debel, [Lebanon](https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/04/23/lebanon-journalist-casualties/), and power its water station.
> Israel: A nation of remorseless parasites.
>
> Here they are destroying solar panels that power Debel, Lebanon, and its water station. For fun. <https://t.co/t81xo2V5nJ>
>
> — Zionism Exposed (@ZionismExposedx) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/ZionismExposedx/status/2048046401435717987)
Debel is the same Christian village where an Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) soldier [destroyed](https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/04/22/jesus-statue-black-brown-lives/) a statue of Jesus, only last week.
> After a completely manufactured display of ‘remorse’ over the desecration of a cross in the southern Lebanese village of Debel, Israeli forces are demolishing parts of the border town, bulldozing solar panels that supply electricity and power its water station. [pic.twitter.com/q82UXaYgNd](https://t.co/q82UXaYgNd)
>
> — roqayah chamseddine (@roqchams) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/roqchams/status/2048040607939985460)
Once again, the IOF [claims](https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-investigating-after-footage-shows-soldiers-damaging-solar-panels-in-south-lebanon-town/) it is investigating — but we all know what it means when Israel ‘investigates’ its own war crimes.
It’s also worth pointing out that the IOF wouldn’t even be pretending to investigate if it were a Muslim village.
> There are people out there who are fine with the Israelis demolishing south Lebanon as long as they spare the Christian villages.
>
> Well guess what guys, they’re not sparing the Christian villages  <https://t.co/ciJ00kCDrv>
>
> — Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/2048044225829204259)
No doubt that Israel is about to tell us that the solar panels were Hezbollah infrastructure. Were they using them to charge their phones and play Club Penguin?
Israel — the ethnic cleansing continues
---------------------------------------
Israel has repeatedly [claimed](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy66e20j531o) that it does not target civilian infrastructure. Despite this, there is a clear and documented pattern of the IOF flattening [railways,](https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/04/07/israel-railways/) [schools](https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/03/06/iran-school-bombing-investigations/), hospitals, water [desalination plants](https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2025/08/25/israel-water/) and electric supplies. Clearly, the IOF is attempting to make it impossible for the people of Gaza, and now Lebanon, to survive.
And there’s a word for that.
Now, Israel is systematically destroying parts of Southern Lebanon, no doubt as part of its goal to create a ‘Greater Israel’.
> If you didn’t know, Israel is carrying out Nakba 3.0 in Lebanon. It is \*self-admittedly\* genocide, permanent land theft and ethnic cleansing to create Greater Israel. The Zionists intend to keep this land forever and massacre or displace everyone on it in the process. <https://t.co/vlBmkYJFVe>
>
> — Kit Klarenberg (@KitKlarenberg) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/KitKlarenberg/status/2048092530038682023)
Israel’s ‘Greater Israel project’ was formally established in 1967. This was only one month after Israel illegally [annexed](https://www.britannica.com/event/Six-Day-War) the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War.
According to [*Middle East Eye*](https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/what-greater-israel):
> It is often understood as a vision of territorial expansion to encompass Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, along with significant parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
This tells us that the current attacks on Lebanon are not some new attempt to disarm Hezbollah. They are part of a prolonged and systematic colonial attempt to invade and steal the land.
Ecocide
-------
The IOF has already [destroyed](https://www.asparagusmagazine.com/articles/solar-panels-power-war-ravaged-gaza-where-electricity-is-cut-off-and-infrastructure-destroyed) 90% of all solar panels in Gaza, leaving the power system in ruins and the people of Gaza with no stable supply of electricity. Now, it is committing similar crimes in Lebanon.
We are already in the middle of a global climate catastrophe; meanwhile, ‘God’s chosen people’ are destroying solar panels?
Israel [claims](https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/environment-at-a-glance-country-notes_59ce6fe6-en/israel_8321d563-en.html#%3A%7E%3Atext=Israel%27s+greenhouse+gas+%28GHG%29+emissions%2Cretail+rates+among+OECD+countries.) to be a leader in environmental technology, but environmentalism without anti-zionism is simply gardening.
> Environmentalism without anti-Zionism and anti-imperialism is just gardening. <https://t.co/hfTZlTnPo8>
>
> — Ted Rutland (@TedRutland) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/TedRutland/status/2048061854589604330)
Additionally, what’s the good in claiming to be a leader in [environmentalism](https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/11/29/lebanon-israels-ecocide-turns-southern-green-spaces-to-ash/) whilst dropping [200,000 tonnes](https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/10/08/200000-tonnes-of-explosives-dropped-on-gaza-equivalent-to-6-nuclear-bombs/) of explosives filled with toxic fumes on civilians? That’s the equivalent of six Hiroshimas.
Not to mention the continuous use of [white phosphorus](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/25/israel-white-phosphorus-south-lebanon-researchers) which [unlawful under international law](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/lebanon-evidence-of-israels-unlawful-use-of-white-phosphorus-in-southern-lebanon-as-cross-border-hostilities-escalate/) and the huge and lingering environmental impact of it.
By early 2024, Israel had already [destroyed](https://www.tni.org/en/article/ecocide-imperialism-and-palestine-liberation) a huge part of Gaza’s farmland, wiping out orchards, greenhouses, and crops, which are all vital for survival in Gaza. It had [decimated](https://www.tni.org/en/article/ecocide-imperialism-and-palestine-liberation) the majority of farms and orchards, with munitions and toxins now contaminating Gaza’s soil and groundwater.
Similarly, seawater is full of sewage and waste because Israel cut off electricity and destroyed water treatment plants.
It is clear that from the start, Israel [has used](https://www.tni.org/en/article/ecocide-imperialism-and-palestine-liberation) environmental harm as a weapon of control and erasure. Now, it is a core feature of its settler-colonial terrorism.
> Demolishing solar panels, all part and parcel of the ecocidal tendencies of a colonial power. <https://t.co/dheCkDIDpW>
>
> — nell | 累 (@nellodee) [April 25, 2026](https://twitter.com/nellodee/status/2048084933089046639)
Systematic destruction
----------------------
It has become clear that destruction is so deeply embedded in the minds of Israeli’s that they didn’t even think to make use of the solar panels on the land they will no doubt attempt to occupy. So much for an ‘environmental leader’.
We have watched Israel systematically destroy electricity and water supplies throughout Gaza. Now, it’s doing the same in Southern Lebanon. People cannot survive without clean water or power, and that is exactly what the terrorists in Israel are counting on.
The fight for Palestinian and Lebanese freedom is [inherently tied](https://www.tni.org/en/article/ecocide-imperialism-and-palestine-liberation) to the survival of the Earth and humanity. There cannot be one without the other.
*Feature image via [Heidi Pett/X](https://x.com/heidipett/status/2048086176586690783)*
By [HG](https://www.thecanary.co/author/hg/)
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