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Israel’s Military Campaign Leaves Lebanon’s Litani River Region Isolated

Human Rights Watch, a prominent New York-based human rights group, has documented a pattern of deliberate destruction by Israeli forces targeting nine bridges spanning the Litani River and its tributary between March 12 and April 8. This devastating campaign has left only one operational crossing, the Qasmieh bridge, connecting southern Lebanon to the rest of the country.

According to a recent report by HRW, Israeli forces systematically dismantled or severely impaired all primary bridges connecting areas south of the Litani River to the rest of the country between March 12 and April 8. The organisation’s analysis drew upon online videos and photographs of the strikes on the nine bridges and the road leading to Al-Khardali bridge.

Israeli officials, including far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich, have previously threatened to extend Israeli control up to the Litani River, which Smotrich has described as a crucial waterway and “the new Israeli border”.

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