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An investigation by the Financial Times (UK) revealed that the IDF's operations in southern Lebanon are part of a plan to create a 5km wide "dead zone" on the border.
The Financial Times combined data from satellites with research from US universities to come to the above conclusion.
After the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out last October, Hezbollah began attacking Israel and Israel responded.
According to the Financial Times, the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has displaced more than 95,000 Lebanese people as well as 60,000 Israelis.
Hezbollah has rejected the idea of withdrawing from southern Lebanon. Lebanese officials appear to hope to prevent a major war by creating a buffer zone and a diplomatic solution.
For its part, the IDF denies that it is creating a buffer zone. The IDF claims that it is only pushing back Hezbollah to stop its continued attacks on Israeli residents in the north.
Many Lebanese can only return to their villages for funerals, which appear to be one of the few quiet periods after the airstrikes. “Every day the devastation gets worse,” said Hassan Shayt, the leader of the Kfar Kila district.
“The damage is huge. The type of weapons used is different from what we saw in 2006. Before, when a house was bombed, the damage was limited to that house and the surrounding area. Now, there is a whole neighborhood affected by a bombing,” said Hashem Haidar, chairman of the Southern Lebanon Council.
One in three homes in southern Lebanon is used by Hezbollah as a weapons storage facility, training facility and staging point for cross-border shelling, a senior Israeli military official said.
Questions have also been raised about Israel's tactics in "clearing" land near the border, with some clips showing the Israeli military using strange methods, such as using catapults to launch fireballs across the border and even flaming arrows.
There are also issues regarding Israel's use of white phosphorus in combat. Israel claims that its use of white phosphorus is in accordance with international law and is used strictly for smoke generation and not against Hezbollah members.
However, local leaders say their use has contaminated farmland and this will take years to fix, with estimated damage of more than $1.7 billion.
