Hours after threatening to strike bridges crossing the Litani River, the Israeli military followed through, bombing two bridges in the Tyre district of South Lebanon.
South Lebanon's hidden crossings are gone © Mena Today
Hours after threatening to strike bridges crossing the Litani River, the Israeli military followed through, bombing two bridges in the Tyre district of South Lebanon.
The first strike hit a bridge near the village of Bourj Rahal. The second targeted the Kenayat Bridge in the Qasmiyeh area. Both are located within the Tyre caza.
These are not major thoroughfares connecting regions. They are secondary bridges, running through villages, off the main roads, largely invisible to casual observation.
And that is precisely why they were targeted.
Hezbollah's fighters have been using these secondary crossings to move men and materiel across the Litani, deliberately avoiding the main routes that are under constant surveillance by Israeli drone patrols. The militia adapted its logistics after learning that major roads were monitored. Israel, in turn, has now adapted its targeting.
The strikes reflect Israel's increasingly granular intelligence picture of Hezbollah's ground movements in South Lebanon. Rather than targeting only obvious military infrastructure, the IDF is systematically eliminating the secondary network the militia relies on to operate below the radar.
By destroying the bridges Hezbollah thought were safe precisely because they were insignificant, Israel has sent a clear message:
There are no safe routes left in South Lebanon. Not the main roads. Not the back roads. Not the village bridges.
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