Educide in Lebanon by Israel

Repeated Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon (2025-2026) have damaged or destroyed civilian infrastructure including schools used as shelters where displaced over 1 million people, including hundreds of thousands of children. The education system was heavily disrupted: the schools were closed or used as shelters and the children unable to attend classes regularly.

A) South Lebanon, 2024:

Israeli ground forces occupied multiple schools in southern Lebanon Schools were used as military positions/barracks. There are evidences of vandalism, pillaging and destruction of school property. At least two schools documented with intentional damage. Human Rights Watch notes these acts may amount to war crimes.

“Many of southern Lebanon’s border villages have been razed to the ground, and where schools were left standing, several had been vandalized, and at least two had been ransacked by Israeli forces,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch. “By pillaging schools, Israeli forces committed apparent war crimes and put the education of students in Lebanon at risk.”

More than 100 schools across southern Lebanon have been destroyed or “heavily damaged” since the start of hostilities in October 2023, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The schools in Aita al-Shaab, Tayr Harfa, and Ramieh were significantly damaged, most likely as a result of ground fighting. The five schools that were occupied had damage from small arms fire and explosive weapons. All had graffiti and writing in Hebrew and English on walls and classroom boards. Dated Hebrew graffiti found in Naqoura Intermediate Public School suggests that the Israeli military continued to occupy some of the schools weeks after the November 2024 ceasefire.

B) South Lebanon and Beirut, 2026:

A Remote Explosion of the Public high school destroyed (Marwahine, April 2026). A public high school in Marwahine (South Lebanon) was detonated by the Israeli army Building was already damaged earlier in fighting, but was fully destroyed on April 2026. The IDF footage was released by Israeli journalists without precise date of the destruction. Lebanese Education Ministry condemned it, stating it had no military presence

C) Students as target:

According to the top official of the ‌U.N. children's agency, the Israeli attack on Lebanon has wounded or killed the equivalent of one classroom of children daily and robbed the remainder of their sense of normalcy since it began two weeks ago (statement on March 18 2026)

According to Lebanese health ministry figures, at least 111 children have been killed and 334 wounded in Israeli strikes on Lebanon since March 2, when Lebanese armed group Hezbollah joined the regional war by firing into Israeli territory. That equals nearly 30 children a day.

D) Academic institutions impacted (Beirut & south Lebanon)

Universities and campuses reported damage from airstrikes Example: Rafic Hariri University campus buildings damaged during strikes