US EditionIDF Begins Limited Ground Operations Against Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon
The Israel Defence Forces launched targeted ground operations to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure and enhance northern Israel's security amid over 800,000 displaced in Lebanon, officials say.
- The IDF announced on Monday that troops from its 91st Division have begun limited ground operations in southern Lebanon to strengthen the forward defence area along Israel’s northern border.
- Following the killing of Iran's supreme leader on February 28, Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets and sent hundreds of Radwan to the south, Israel said.
- Artillery and air strikes cleared areas and then IDF troops advanced roughly 7 to 9 kilometers, encountering Hezbollah fighters and killing two while hitting terror infrastructure.
- Humanitarian agencies say over 830,000 displaced Lebanese civilians face hardship while the UN's Secretary-General António Guterres urged a ceasefire and Yvette Cooper mobilised $6.65m in aid.
- The move broadens regional war as Israel's ground operations in Lebanon deepen sovereignty concerns, while Brent crude spikes above $100 to about $120.
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Tel Aviv and Beirut., Israel's army began yesterday new “limited and targeted” ground operations against Hezbollah's key strongholds in southern Lebanon, to the end, argued, to improve the advanced defence zone, in which the Shia group announced the assassination of its spokesman, Abu Ali al-Askari.
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