depopulate

Despite Israel’s assurances, many Gazans fear that it aims to depopulate the north of the strip and turn it into a closed military zone or a Jewish settlement.

“Too many people think there’s nothing here, that we’re depopulated, so they try to place him here.”

The fighting has displaced some 110,000 people in Lebanon, and approximately 60,000 in northern Israel, leaving both sides of the border depopulated.

But when is the last time you read about anything good taking place in a deindustrialized, depopulating, or aging community?

Israeli officials are under tremendous pressure to return their citizens to the sovereign territory Hezbollah has effectively depopulated for most of a year.