Since Israel plans to make a border buffer zone in Southern Lebanon and make the Litani River the boundary, they should at least clean up the Litani River as a service to Lebanon.
Lebanon is the world's third most polluted country. It needs electric cars to platforms for low cost to replace the aged and dirty fossil fuel powered fleet. Before the Lebanese civil war it was a decent country. Hezbollah and other bad actors have used it as a base to attack Israel. The P.L.O. didn't help. Lebanese efforts to have a fair and balanced government didn't work because of political assassinations of leaders that weren't puppets to terrorists. Bani Sadr was one casualty of the early era when Christians could still be elected to the highest office.
So environmental restoration work is one of the lowest priorities for the troubled nation. The Litani River is the country's best water source yet dangerously polluted. Even raw sewage flows into it in addition to other toxic substances. Restoring the river to health would require solar compost toilets to replace the existing systems of human waste processing, or something more advanced like solar electric or solar microwave processing.
Israel plans to destroy housing and buildings that can shelter terrorists and make the region barren. That presents a great opportunity to begin a long range project of restoring the environment to health before future Lebanese return to reoccupy it when or if the terrorist danger to Israel from Lebanon is past.
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