Litani River:
Israeli airstrikes have destroyed the Qasmiyeh Bridge, a key crossing over the Litani River on Lebanon’s southern coastal highway.
- Litani River is a major river in Lebanon.
- It rises in a low divides west of Baalbek and flowing southwestward through the Bekaa valley between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains.
- It falls into the Mediterranean Sea.
- Tributaries: Berdawni River, Chtoura River, Qib Elias River etc
- Dams: El Wauroun Dam, Qaraoun Dam, or Albert Naqash Dam
- It provides a major source for water supply, irrigation, and hydroelectricity both within Southern Lebanon and the bekaa and the country as a whole.
- Bekaa valley is broad valley of east-central Lebanon, extending in a northeast-southwest direction for along the Litani and Orontes rivers.
- The valley contains nearly half of Lebanon’s arable land.
- It is not as intensively farmed as the country’s coastal plain because of less rainfall and a wider variation in temperature.
