Israel begins its ground offensive in southern Lebanon

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In addition, the ground invasion is supported by the air force and artillery, with “precise strikes on military targets in the area.” At least 95 people have been killed and 172 injured in Israeli attacks in Lebanon in the past 24 hours.

Israel The land invasion of Lebanon that the country had threatened began this Tuesday, giving way to the “next phase of the war.” ‘Land attacks limited, localized and selectivebased on accurate information, against Hezbollah’s terrorist targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon.” The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement as they announced a fact that had been speculated for days.

The offensive is focused”in villages near the border“, which according to Israeli Defense Forces is “a immediate threat for the Israeli communities in northern Israel”, and was joined by the air force and artillery, which had already been launched on southern Lebanon in the last hours, with “precise strikes on military objectives in the area”.

Still the number of victims is unknown or the scale of the first night of the offensive, but the Lebanese Health Ministry warned shortly before it began that the various Israeli attacks in the country in the past 24 hours have left 95 dead and 172 injured.

These figures add to the more than 1,000 people who have been killed and about a million who have had to flee their homes in the past two weeks as a result of Israel’s brutal bombings, which have mainly targeted southern and eastern Lebanon, but also the southern suburbs of Lebanon. Beirut.

Given the threat of the ground operation, Hezbollah It also intensified attacks tonight on Israeli forces massing at the border. The Lebanese Shia group issued a statement after midnight saying the targets of its attacks were Israeli forces deployed on the border, and the IDF has confirmed that 10 projectiles were launched from Lebanon, some of which were intercepted and others in open areas fell.

The attack, according to Hezbollah, took place against “Israeli enemy soldiers” at the gate of the Shtula settlement and used “artillery projectiles” that caused “a direct hit.”

It’s about the first Israeli invasion of Lebanon in almost twenty yearsafter the executions in 1978, 1982 and 2006, and is being carried out after Israel’s intensive campaign against Hezbollah and after Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced on Monday that “the next phase of the war against Hezbollah will begin soon.”

Source: EITB

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