Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that the military will take control of south Lebanon all the way to the Litani river.
“All five bridges over the Litani that were used by Hezbollah for the passage of terrorists and weapons have been blown up, and the IDF (Israeli military) will control the rest of the bridges and the security zone up to the Litani,” Katz said during a visit to a military command centre in Israel.
Katz added that the hundreds of thousands of south Lebanon residents who were displaced by the Middle East war this month “will not return south of the Litani River until security is guaranteed for the residents of the north” of Israel.
He made the comments Tuesday as Lebanon said an Israeli strike outside Beirut had killed two people after several strikes on the capital's southern suburbs overnight as the Israel-Hezbollah conflict entered its fourth week.
Eye witnesses spoke of the destruction to an apartment building in Bshamoun, a mixed town in the Aley region, located in the mountains the capital to the southeast, outside of Hezbollah's traditional strongholds.
