Lebanon: Government-backed report accuses Israel of “ecocide”.

Summary

Lebanon has accused Israel of committing "ecocide" in a government-backed report documenting damage to forests, agricultural lands, marine ecosystems, water resources, and atmospheric quality linked to Israeli military activity in 2023 and 2024, which the report says has "reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape" of southern Lebanon.

In the foreword to the report, prepared by Lebanon’s Ministry of Environment and National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS-L), the country’s environment minister, Tamara El Zein, describes the scale and intentionality of the damage “constitute what must be recognised as an act of ecocide”. 

Publication of the report follows recent government-level accusations of “ecocide” – in a separate official statement issued in February 2026, Lebanon’s Ministries of Agriculture and Environment condemned alleged aerial spraying of the herbicide glyphosate over the southern region of the country as “ecocide”.

You can find the full report, ‘Guiding the Steps Towards a Post-War Recovery of Lebanon’s Natural Ecosystems: Understanding the Stakes and Looking Forward’, here.