In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said the bridge was being used by Hezbollah as a \u201ckey crossing\u201d to move from northern to southern Lebanon, \u201cprepare for combat against IDF troops, and operate against the civilians of the State of Israel, while endangering Lebanese civilians and causing extensive destruction in populated areas.\u201d<\/p>\n
The attack was the first on Lebanese public infrastructure to be acknowledged by Israel since the start of the Middle East war, with the IDF saying it was necessary to strike the bridge to prevent a \u201cthreat to Israeli civilians, and the continued harm to Lebanese civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n
The military said Hezbollah also positioned rocket launchers near the bridge and carried out rocket attacks on Israel from the area recently.<\/p>\n
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\u05d0\u05e8\u05d2\u05d5\u05df \u05d4\u05d8\u05e8\u05d5\u05e8 \u05d7\u05d9\u05d6\u05d1\u05d0\u05dc\u05dc\u05d4 \u05de\u05e9\u05ea\u05de\u05e9 \u05d1\u05d2\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d6\u05d4 \u05e2\u05dc \u05de\u05e0\u05ea \u05dc\u05d4\u05d2\u05d9\u05e2 \u05de\u05e6\u05e4\u05d5\u05df \u05dc\u05d3\u05e8\u05d5\u05dd \u05d4\u05de\u05d3\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4, \u05dc\u05d4\u05d9\u05e2\u05e8\u05da\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/jWK4dw9dup<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 \u05e6\u05d1\u05d0 \u05d4\u05d4\u05d2\u05e0\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc (@idfonline) March 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThis is only the beginning, and the Lebanese government and the Lebanese state will pay an increasing price through damage to Lebanese national infrastructure that is used by Hezbollah terrorists,\u201d Defense Minister Israel Katz said during an assessment with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and the military\u2019s top brass.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThe Lebanese government, which misled and did not fulfill its commitment to disarm Hezbollah, will pay increasing prices through damage to infrastructure and the loss of territory, until the central commitment of disarming Hezbollah is fulfilled,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun offered to negotiate directly with Israel, but on Friday he said he had not received a response.<\/p>\n The IDF bombed several roads in southern Lebanon on Friday, according to the official National News Agency, blocking access from the north of the Litani River and from the Bekaa valley, an eastern area Hezbollah uses to transport weaponry.<\/p>\n The NNA also reported that Israeli shells hit the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon\u2019s Nepalese battalion in the border town of Mays al-Jabal.<\/p>\n Other reported Israeli strikes on Friday included an attack that killed eight people in the south Lebanese village of Miyeh w Miyeh near the port city of Sidon, according to the health ministry.<\/p>\n In the nearby village of Irkey, Mohammad Taqi buried his four daughters, aged six to 13, who were killed in an Israeli strike on Thursday along with five relatives.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Israeli enemy says every day that it is targeting infrastructure,\u201d he told AFP at the funeral, his head wrapped in a white bandage and his face covered in wounds.<\/p>\n \u201cIs this the infrastructure? Have you seen it?\u201d he asked, gesturing to his daughters\u2019 bodies.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve lost four daughters. I don\u2019t have any others. Zainab, Zahra, Malika and Yasmina,\u201d he said, adding that he had also lost his parents, brother, nephew and brother-in-law in the same strike.<\/p>\n \t In Sawaneh, Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said that a strike killed two paramedics, one from the Hezbollah-linked Islamic Health Committee and another from the Risala Scouts association, affiliated with the Amal movement, a Hezbollah ally.<\/p>\n Early Saturday, the ministry said a strike on a primary healthcare centre in Burj Qalawiya killed \u201c12 doctors, paramedics and nurses on duty.\u201d<\/p>\n There was no immediate comment from the IDF, which earlier announced it was further bolstering troops in northern Israel amid the fighting.<\/p>\n The military deployed troops deeper into southern Lebanon last week, saying it aims to \u201cestablish a forward defense that will create an additional security layer for the residents of the north.\u201d<\/p>\n So far, the IDF said it has conducted over 1,100 strikes in Lebanon since the hostilities escalated when Hezbollah began attacking Israel earlier this month.<\/p>\n They include 190 targets of Hezbollah\u2019s elite Radwan Force, 200 rocket and missile launchers, 35 command centers and 80 multi-story buildings that were used by the terror group, the military said.<\/p>\n \t The IDF said it has also killed over 380 members of Hezbollah and other terror groups during the fighting, including two Hezbollah commanders responsible for rocket fire on Israel who it reports were killed Thursday.<\/p>\n The strike, which took place north of the Litani River on Thursday, killed Rahif Ali Qassem, the chief of Hezbollah\u2019s rocket and missile unit in the Badr regional division, and Mohammad Baqer Ahmad Ali, the unit\u2019s \u201cfirepower management commander,\u201d the IDF said.<\/p>\n Hezbollah\u2019s Badr unit is one of the terror group\u2019s three regional divisions in southern Lebanon, and it is tasked with the area north of the Litani River.<\/p>\n The IDF has said that Hezbollah is launching most of its rocket and drone attacks on Israel from deeper within southern Lebanon, and not from close to the border.<\/p>\n \u2018Your decision\u2019<\/p>\n Hezbollah also launched attacks against Israel on Friday, as part of what it said was a Quds Day operation.<\/p>\n Quds Day is an annual anti-Israel demonstration in support of the Palestinians that is marked by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its allies, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s military renewed its evacuation warnings, including for Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, and launched several strikes on the area according to the NNA.<\/p>\n On Thursday it had issued a similar warning, expanding the evacuation zone in southern Lebanon to reach more than 40 kilometers from the Lebanon-Israel border.<\/p>\n Israeli planes also dropped leaflets over Beirut on Friday.<\/p>\n \u0625\u0644\u0642\u0627\u0621 \u0645\u0646\u0627\u0634\u064a\u0631 “\u0625\u0633\u0631\u0627\u0626\u064a\u0644\u064a\u0629” \u0641\u0648\u0642 \u0628\u064a\u0631\u0648\u062a #\u0645\u0644\u062d\u0642<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/pEQvQ2wUEn<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AFP__20260313__A38D8HD__v1__HighRes__LebanonIsraelIranUsWar-e1773451742927-640x400.jpg\")
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\n\t\tIsraeli soldiers work on their tanks at a staging area in the Upper Galilee, near the border with Lebanon, on March 13, 2026. (Odd Andersen\/AFP)<\/p>\n