Israeli defence minister Israel Katz bragged about "wiping out" dozens of villages in southern Lebanon in a television interview on Saturday.
In an appearance on Channel 14, the far-right minister said the Israeli military had destroyed more than 60 villages across the so-called security zone that reaches deep inside Lebanon.
"Every single village, we’re talking about 23,000 homes, is in ruins. And that’s not even mentioning the underground infrastructure and the tunnels," he said to a round of applause in the studio.
"There are no residents left, 200,000 people have been displaced," he said.
"This is the Gaza model. That's what we've been implementing."
Israeli forces have for months been systematically levelling villages across the south, repeating their strategy in Gaza which has seen more than 80% of the territory wiped from the face of the earth.
The UN estimated last month that as many as 360,000 Lebanese remained displaced due to Israel's occupation.
Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has subsided since a US-brokered ceasefire came into force in June, though Israeli forces regularly violate it with airstrikes in the south.
They continue to occupy hundreds of square-kilometres of Lebanese territory inside the so-called "yellow line" and are refusing to withdraw until Hezbollah is completely disarmed.
Earlier last week Katz visited Israel's occupying forces in southern Lebanon, where he threatened to seize more territory if Hezbollah resumes attacks on Israel.
"If Hezbollah joins Iran in an attack on Israel, it will be dealt a heavy blow and lose additional territory in southern Lebanon, in the areas of Nabatieh and the Litani [River], which will become part of a permanent Israeli security zone," he said.
The minister's comments came 10 days ahead of Israel's general election, which has seen the incumbent far-right parties compete for the vote by bragging about the military's violence and the brutality shown towards Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.