The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday announced that it had launched a “limited, localized and targeted” ground attacks against Hezbollah targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon, in another escalation of the ongoing hostilities between the Jewish nation and the Iranian-backed Lebanese armed group.
The army said the targets were located in villages near the Israel-Lebanon border and “pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel.”
Just hours before the IDF’s announcement, Israel had sent a new warning to residents of Dahieh, a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs, to evacuate. The warning was followed by a series of strikes in Beirut.
The first strikes came less than 30 minutes after the warning was issued.
Meanwhile, more than 1,000 people have died in the past two weeks since the cross-border hostilities began, while up to a million others are believed to have been displaced.
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