Beirut, Lebanon – Israel is attacking Lebanon’s water infrastructure, using similar tactics to its genocidal war on Gaza, uprooting local populations.Experts say that Israel’s strikes on crucial water infrastructure and near sites being repaired after prior damage have effectively turned access to water into a weapon – and that has become a pattern.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“The impunity Israel enjoyed in Gaza as it committed water war crimes is again on full display,” Bachir Ayoub, Oxfam’s Lebanon country director, said in a report published by the charity in late March. “The world has shown Israel can do what it wants, whenever it wants, without repercussion and again it is civilians who are paying the ultimate price for this inaction.”Displacement through waterIsrael intensified its war on Lebanon for the second time in less than two years on March 2. Hours earlier, Hezbollah had fired rockets at Israel, breaking a 15-month period of not responding to Israeli attacks and the more than 10,000 ceasefire violations.Hezbollah’s attack was also in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei two days later. Over the next few days, Israel would displace more than 1.2 million people in Lebanon in a bombing campaign across the country.Israel has killed journalists, medical workers, and devastated southern Lebanon’s medical infrastructure. Experts told Al Jazeera that those acts, along with the destruction of Lebanon’s water infrastructure, are part of a concerted effort to create an uninhabitable buffer zone in southern Lebanon.Israel is current …
