Israel destroys solar panels in Debel, hitting electricity and water supply

5 articles · Updated · wired.me · May 4

Filmed bulldozers tore down panels in the southern Christian-majority village, where many residents had remained and depended on solar power because fuel was scarce.
The damage disrupts household electricity, municipal water pumping and farm irrigation in an area where decentralised solar has become the only functioning energy system.
Lebanon installed more than one gigawatt of decentralised solar by end-2023 after grid collapse, but experts say the fragmented network is hard to protect or rebuild during war.

As Lebanon's solar lifeline is dismantled, is this the new face of energy warfare in the Middle East?

With its DIY power grid shattered, can Lebanon's society survive the collapse of its own survival plan?