War Over Wazzani River Threatened in 2002
From the Moshe Dayan Center:
Following a brief period of calm on Israel’s northern border, the drums of war have begun to beat again in recent weeks. This time, the background to what thus far remains only verbal escalation is not Hizbullah actions against Israel. Instead, it is the Lebanese Government’s intention to begin pumping water from the Wazzani River, one of the tributaries of the Jordan.
Israel has warned Beirut that if it goes ahead with its plans, Israel will treat the project as a casus belli. And Hizbullah has predictably weighed in with its own demands that the Government of Lebanon proceed as planned and ignore Israeli warnings. Hizbullah spokesmen have added that if Israel acts against Lebanon, Hizbullah will respond by attacking targets in Israel.