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Litani

River rising near Baalbek in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains of eastern Lebanon, 144 km/89 mi long. It flows northeast–southwest through the fertile Bekaa Valley, for which it provides irrigation water, and continues east to the Mediterranean 8 km/5 mi north of Tyre. Israeli forces invaded Lebanon in 1978 and subsequently withdrew as far as the Litani River.



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Likud party chief Binyamin Netanyahu, who was soon to replace Peres as prime minister, demanded that Hezbollah be "dismantled," and his two top lieutenants, Ariel Sharon and Rafael Eitan, called for Israel to expand its occupation zone in Lebanon north to the Litani River.
A fragile truce in Lebanon, but no peace if hard-liners have their way by Marshall, Rachelle / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
In a televised interview on August 27, Nasrallah said that Hezbollah had "committed" not to show any military manifestation of the group south of the Litani River.
Hezbollah's bounded victory by El Rafei, Raed / The Progressive
The invasion of Lebanon and the creation of the 'security zone' in the south gave Israel greater control of the Jordan and Litani Rivers.
A new challenge: water scarcity in the Arab world by Swain, Ashok / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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