Israel destroyed the last bridge connecting southern Lebanon to the rest of the country. Whole towns were wiped off the map
Israel carried out two successive strikes on a strategic bridge in southern Lebanon on Thursday, destroying it, the official Lebanese news agency ANI reported.
The bridge was destroyed in an Israeli attack PHOTO X / Open Source Intel @Osint613
The bridge was the last one that connected southern Lebanon to the rest of the country, according to Agerpres.
“Enemy aviation executed two consecutive strikes on the Qasmiyeh bridge, the last bridge between the Tyr region and the Saida region, destroying it entirely”transmitted ANI.
The Israeli army on Thursday again asked civilians to evacuate the entire area from southern Lebanon to the Zahrani River, about 40 km north of the border.
According to another news from the Lebanese Agency, one person was killed by an Israeli strike that targeted a car on Thursday on the main road connecting Beirut to Damascus, far from the border with Israel.
The attack took place near Dahr el-Baidar, in the mountains east of Beirut, ANI said.
Entire towns in Lebanon, drawn from the map
Towns and villages in southern Lebanon are being razed to the ground by Israeli demolitions, satellite images and video obtained by BBC Verify show.
The analysis found that more than 1,400 buildings were destroyed after March 2, based on verified visual evidence. This represents only a fraction of the extent of the damage caused by Israeli airstrikes and demolitions, with limited ground access and available satellite imagery. The actual scale of the destruction is most likely much greater.
Israel's demolition of these structures follows the order issued on March 22 by Defense Minister Israel Katz to “accelerate the destruction of Lebanese homes” from near the border with Israel, on the base the “Gaza model”in the campaign against Hezbollah.
More than 1.2 million people are estimated to have been displaced in Lebanon, including 820,000 from the south of the country, according to data provided by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The institution states that the war in Lebanon has forced many people to flee to more northern areas or cross the border into Syria.
Lebanon's Health Ministry says more than 2,000 people have been killed since the conflict began. Israeli authorities said 13 soldiers and two civilians had been killed by Hezbollah in the past six weeks.
