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Nature pays price for war in Israel's north

Aftermath of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the neighbourhood of Rweiss in Beirut's southern suburbs on November 14, 2024. [AFP]

Across northern Israel's lush, green nature reserves, the ecological toll of the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants is laid bare: wild boar hit by shrapnel, trees reduced to ashes and swathes of charred vegetation.

In the Hula Valley, home to a unique migration sanctuary for birds, a flock of common cranes and their cacophony of calls fill the air -- but smoke billows in the distance and their sounds soon compete with the whir of Israeli military helicopters overhead.

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