Israel is cutting off Southern Lebanon as we speak

Israel has bombed the Qasmiyeh bridge over the Litani River in Lebanon, in an attempt to cut off a key route between Tyre and Sidon.

Israel failed to destroy the bridge. This would have further disconnected Southern Lebanon from Beirut and the rest of the country.

Now, Israel is threatening to bomb the bridge again. Its destruction would cause an even greater humanitarian disaster.

War crimes by Israel again

The Qasmiyeh bridge is the last bridge linking the north and south of the Litani River in the Tyre area. Despite Israeli warnings to evacuate, thousands of families are still in the area.

Complete destruction of the bridge would isolate huge parts of southern Lebanon from the capital and the rest of the country. This would make it much more difficult for Lebanon to deliver humanitarian aid to the south. It would also undermine resistance fighters’ ability to travel and defend their sovereign territory.

Of course, this is part of the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) illegal plan to occupy and depopulate the south.

As always, the end goal is ‘Greater Israel‘, which Israel first mentioned as far back as 1967.

It is used to refer to the territories Israel illegally stole in 1967: the Palestinian territories, the Golan Heights in Syria, and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

However, Zionists have also referred to it as including all of Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, along with significant parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

How many genocides does Israel want to add to its scorecard?

What does the international community expect when it has allowed Israel to systematically carpet-bomb Gaza, without repercussions?

Israel has already displaced over 1.1m people in Southern Lebanon, and killed thousands. But humanitarian disasters are its speciality, and just like in Gaza, it has now created another one in Lebanon.

Israel is a US-backed colonialist project that gets off on killing brown people. Meanwhile, the majority of Western governments continue to whitewash their war crimes in the name of ‘defeating terrorists’. We all know it’s bullshit, but unfortunately, until the international community grows a collective backbone, Israel will continue to get away with committing multiple genocides at the same time.

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