Lebanon says farmland area roughly size of Chicago destroyed in Israeli offensive

Lebanon’s Agriculture Ministry said Friday that Israel’s ongoing offensive has damaged more than 56,000 hectares of farmland — an area roughly the size of Chicago or about 78,000 football fields — and killed more than 1.8 million poultry and livestock, Anadolu Agency reports. The destroyed farmland
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