ConfirmedMilitary & securityBackgroundQasmiyeh, near Tyre, Lebanon
Israel destroys the Qasmiyeh bridge on south Lebanon's coastal highway over the Litani
- Mountain Time
- Local time
- 3:35 PM in Beirut
- Where
- Qasmiyeh, near Tyre, Lebanon
Israel struck the Qasmiyeh bridge near Tyre an hour after a military warning, after Defense Minister Israel Katz added all bridges over the Litani River to the target list, saying Hezbollah used them to move south. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called the strikes "unjustified" and "a prelude to a ground invasion."
Why it matters
The Litani bridges link large parts of southern Lebanon to the rest of the country, so cutting the coastal crossing isolates the south as Israel presses ground operations.
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