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Footage verified by AFP on Monday showed massive detonations in a southern Lebanese border village, where a local official said hundreds of houses have been wiped out by Israel since last year. The video, shared widely online on Monday, showed more than a dozen simultaneous detonations that ripped through Mais al-Jabal and razed homes to dust. Similar aerial scenes have been captured from several border villages, including Mhaibib and Odaisseh, since Israel sent ground troops into southern Lebanon in late September. Houses covering lush hills are seen crumpling in a cloud of grey dust in the v…