High on a rocky outcrop overlooking the rolling hills of southern Lebanon sits Beaufort Castle. Today, 26 years after the withdrawal from southern Lebanon and exactly 44 years after the initial capture (on the Jewish lunar calendar), the fortress is back in Israeli hands. Of all the battlegrounds and outposts that define Israel’s entanglements in southern Lebanon, none carries the historical and emotional weight of these crumbling Crusader ruins.
IDF forces push further into southern Lebanon, and more.
All in today’s edition of It’s Noon in Israel
https://open.substack.com/pub/amitsegal/p/its-noon-in-israel-israel-returns?r=1gxt62&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
High on a rocky outcrop overlooking the rolling hills of southern Lebanon sits Beaufort Castle.
1 صورة مرفق بهذا المنشور — مرئي في تطبيق تيليجرام.