Israel pushed into new parts of southern Lebanon on Monday, deploying troops to target Hezbollah positions as it intensified its campaign against the Iran-backed militant group.
In a briefing, Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters that soldiers were in “new locations that our troops were not operating yesterday”. He described the latest ground operations as “limited and targeted”, declining to say how deep into Lebanon the troops would advance, or if soldiers would take up new positions.
Israel’s military, which has occupied five positions in southern Lebanon since a November 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah, sent additional forces into the country after Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets on March 2, dragging Lebanon into an expanding regional war. Hezbollah said its attack was in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader on February 28, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Israel has responded with an intensive bombing campaign on Lebanon.
More than 800 people in Lebanon have been killed, and more than 800,000 have been driven from their homes, many from the south as well as from areas near the capital, Beirut.
– Reuters
