Sheikh Naim Mahdi School
Four-storey school in Eastern Zawtar demolished by Israeli forces on 12 August.
Sheikh Naim Mahdi School was a four-storey school in Eastern Zawtar, southern Lebanon. Israeli forces detonated the building in a demolition reported on 12 August 2026, which the local mayor called "the biggest blow" in a month of demolitions.
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The Sheikh Naim Mahdi School stood four storeys tall in the centre of Eastern Zawtar, a village in the Zawtar al-Sharqiya municipality of southern Lebanon, before Israeli forces detonated it in a demolition reported on 12 August 2026.
The Israeli military told CNN that its operations in the area target Hezbollah fighters, without offering a building-by-building justification for this particular demolition. Eastern Zawtar's mayor, Muhammad Ismail, placed the loss inside a month-long pattern of destruction across the village, calling it the worst single blow so FAR.
Talks on widening the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire's protected pilot zones had stalled without a resumption date at the time the school came down, leaving buildings in the area without any agreed protected status. No further detail on the school's own history or enrolment is established in reporting so FAR.
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