US EditionIsrael Hits Key Lebanon Bridge, Orders Homes Destroyed
Israel has killed more than 1,000 people and displaced over one million in southern Lebanon through strikes targeting bridges and homes to stop Hezbollah's movements.
- On Sunday, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered the military to destroy all crossings over the Litani River and Israeli forces struck a main bridge on Lebanon's coastal highway linking southern and central Lebanon.
- Amid the widening regional war, earlier this month Katz warned Lebanon it would face infrastructure damage and territorial losses unless Hezbollah was disarmed, framing the later orders.
- Lebanon's Health Ministry says strikes killed more than 1,000, displacing more than one million, while three bridges were destroyed in southern Lebanon in the last 10 days.
- Ramzi Kaiss of Human Rights Watch warned 'If all these bridges are struck, and the region that is south of the Litani becomes isolated from the rest of the country, then the civilian harm is going to be so immense that you have a humanitarian catastrophe — as people still living in the south won't be able to access food, medicine and other basic needs', and the UN human rights office cautioned some strikes may amount to war crimes.
- Diplomatic pressure mounted as countries urged restraint after French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noël Barrot met Israel's Gideon Sa'ar on Friday; an Israeli civilian and two soldiers were killed.
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The Independent (US)Israeli airstrike destroys key bridge in southern Lebanon
Israel struck a main bridge linking Lebanon's south to the rest of the country on Sunday, March 22, after ordering its military to destroy all crossings over the Litani River and to step up the demolition of homes near the southern border. The destruction of bridges and homes marks a significant escalation in Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, which was pulled into the regional war on March 2 when armed group Hezbollah fired into Israeli ter…
Israel destroys main bridge in south Lebanon, orders demolition of homes near border
Israel struck a main bridge linking Lebanon's south to the rest of the country on Sunday after ordering its military to destroy all crossings over Lebanon's Litani River and to step up the demolition of homes near the southern border.
"These attacks constitute a dangerous escalation and a flagrant violation of Lebanon's sovereignty," wrote Joseph Aoun, after the Israeli bombing of the Qasmiyeh bridge, which spans the Litani River in the south of the country.
The Israeli army struck on Sunday, as part of a series of raids against Hezbollah, a bridge used by the pro-Iranian movement, causing the Lebanese president to fear a "land invasion".
Israel has ordered on Sunday that its combat fighters destroy "immediately" all bridges over the Lebanese Litani River in order to completely isolate a strip of southern Lebanon from the rest of the country. Thus, Israeli forces have claimed that these bridges are used for arms smuggling by Hezbollah members. One of these bridges has been the Qasmiyeh Bridge, located near the coastal city of Tyre, south of Lebanon. As cameras have captured, the …
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