A section of the line uncovered in Lebanon

After the invasion and occupation of 1982, the Israel army established a series of hill-top fortresses in South Lebanon. By side of the Nabatieh road near Deir el Zahrani they dug a gravel pit for building up such a fortress. The pit enroached on the pipeline undermining it along the upper edge of the pit. Beside and just above the line is Tapline's maintenance road which the local residents have recently been allowed to asfalt as access road to their houses. Some of those houses - including multi-story apartment blocks - use the line as a septic tank.

• Kilometer 1193 with the undermined line at the top edge of the pit. The picture is taken from the main road to Nabatieh.
• Kilometer 1193; the upper edge of the pit.
• Kilometer 1193; the undermined line ready to collapse.
• Kilometer 1193; the maintenance road on the right.
• Kilometer 1193; my car parked on the maintenance road and the line.
• The dried out bed of the Zahrani River near Deir el Zahrani in April of 2000.