Israel extends its invasion to all of southern Lebanon and deploys another 7,000 soldiers

Israel extends its invasion to all of southern Lebanon and deploys another 7,000 soldiers

First, the Israeli army issued a warning in Arabic to the — now very few — Lebanese who are heading for the beaches or using boats in the southwest of the country not to do so, a sign that naval forces were going to start operating in the area. Then, on Tuesday, it announced the start of a “limited, localized and targeted” ground incursion in the area, for which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has added a division of reservists. With some 7,000 soldiers, it is the first such formation to participate in combat operations and joins three other divisions that have been focusing their advance in the southeast, in parallel to the dozens of daily air strikes, as on the previous day, with over 100 fighters airborne at the same time. Israel has thus extended its invasion to the entire south of Lebanon.

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