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Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by Botragelad: 3:49am On Oct 01
TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military has launched what it called a "limited, localized" ground offensive in southern Lebanon against the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

"These targets are located in villages close to the border and pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel," the Israeli military said on social media late Monday.

It said the Israeli air force and artillery "are supporting the ground forces with precise strikes on military targets in the area."

Earlier in the day, Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Naim Kassem, said in a televised address that "the resistance forces are ready for a ground engagement." That was despite a series of devastating Israeli attacks on Hezbollah leaders and members in recent weeks.

The Lebanese army had moved back from some checkpoints at the southern border with Israel amid intense artillery shelling by Israeli forces. A Lebanese army official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly, told NPR this was a "redeployment" from forward positions vulnerable to an Israeli incursion.

Another official in the Middle East, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the operation, told NPR earlier in the day that Israel had already conducted brief intelligence-gathering raids inside southern Lebanon as it prepared for a limited ground offensive. “Everything is on the table,” the official said about the imminent ground incursion.

The offensive follows days of intensifying fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Israeli strikes across Lebanon have killed more than 1,000 people in less than two weeks and forced many to flee their homes, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. The strikes have targeted Hezbollah and its weapons, killing leader Hassan Nasrallah and several top officials, but they have also killed many civilians.

Israel and Hezbollah began trading attacks back and forth across the Israel-Lebanon border after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel led by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. In support of Hamas, Hezbollah says it will continue firing rockets into northern Israel until there's a cease-fire in Israel's military campaign in Gaza. Israel says it will keep targeting Hezbollah until Israeli residents can safely return to their homes in northern Israel after fleeing attacks from militants on the Lebanese side of the border.

Asked about earlier reports of an Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon, President Biden told reporters, "We should have a cease-fire now."

Tamir Hayman, who served as the head of Israel’s military intelligence directorate until 2021, said in an interview on Israeli Army Radio on Monday that Israel’s airstrikes in Lebanon had successfully knocked Hezbollah off balance.

From pager blasts to Nasrallah’s killing: 12 days that transformed a bloody conflict
But he said Israel should think through the purpose of a ground invasion: Is it to create a permanent security buffer zone that Israel would occupy long term, with much international opposition, or only to remain temporarily to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure?

“Are we there in order to reach a deal and then leaving? Are we there in order to stay?” Hayman said.

The senior U.S. official told NPR that the Pentagon will send a “few thousand” more troops to the Middle East, focused on air defense capabilities.
The U.S. is concerned about retaliation to Israel’s moves by Iran and Iranian-supported militias in the region. Such a retaliation could threaten U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria.


On Saturday, the Houthis, the main military group in Yemen, launched a ballistic missile toward central Israel, saying it was targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s airplane returning from addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The Pentagon says it wants to prevent Iran from spreading the conflict in the Middle East
Netanyahu landed in Israel shortly before air raid sirens wailed at the airport and throughout central Israel. The Israeli military said it intercepted the missile midair.

On Sunday, Israel’s military said it sent dozens of fighter jets and refueling aircraft more than 1,000 miles away to Yemen, where it said it bombed power plants and a seaport used by the Houthis to import oil for military purposes. The Houthis said the areas hit were civilian targets and that at least four people were killed and dozens wounded in the Israeli strikes.

Israeli security analysts said Israel’s bombing campaign in Yemen was a message to Iran, showing Israel’s long-range flight capability as a tacit warning to Iran that it, too, was within Israel’s reach.

Source:
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133463/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-invasion

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by Botragelad: 3:55am On Oct 01
Israel! You've shown Hezbollah who's boss. Where are those who said the IDF can't invade Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah? Lol

Now, this ground incursion will let the good people of the North return back to their home in peace.

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by Iruis: 4:02am On Oct 01
Israel wants to set the record straight within the middle East

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by MightySparrow: 4:09am On Oct 01
Kill them all don't let Ebola spread to the rest of the world.

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by oz4real83(m): 5:43am On Oct 01
This isn't a war against Lebanon, it is against Hezbollah fighters, that is why the Lebanese military is redeploying their personnel away from the borders where the fighting will take place. I just hope hezbollah will face Israel man to man this time around instead of hiding among civilians, causing civilian casualties embarassed

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by OgiidiiHerbals(m): 6:03am On Oct 01
Just finished watching this on aljazeera..

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by MessiReturns: 6:07am On Oct 01
As we have begun land invasion, the Islamic terrorists sympathisers here who said "put boots on ground na" will shift the goal post grin grin

Terrorists all of them.

When will their sympathisers enlist and Join the troop queueing for their 72 virgins in Janna? grin grin grin

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by VictorUSA15: 6:08am On Oct 01
I strongly want war to break out between Iran and Israel. The latter is ready but the former is afraid. Israel appears prepared, while Iran seems hesitant. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's recent statements and subsequent silence suggest a disconnect between rhetoric and action. Talking tough is not a sign of strength, infact, it's more a sign of weakness. I believe a targeted military operation should aim to dismantle Iran's nuclear capabilities, ensuring regional security and stability.

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by southsouthking(m): 6:17am On Oct 01
Lol
Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by Babaken(m): 6:23am On Oct 01
oz4real83:
This isn't a war against Lebanon, it is against Hezbollah fighters, that is why the Lebanese military is redeploying their personnel away from the borders where the fighting will take place. I just hope hezbollah will face Israel man to man this time around instead of hiding among civilians, causing civilian casualties embarassed
because Lebanon is also not comfortable with Hezbollah

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by madridguy(m): 6:24am On Oct 01
grin grin

They will come vertically and leave horizontally.

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by CodeTemplarr: 6:39am On Oct 01
madridguy:
grin grin

They will come vertically and leave horizontally.
Like it happened with Hamas right? Lol.

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by id4sho(m): 6:52am On Oct 01
Motayoayinde in coma undecided

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by timesupnababa: 6:54am On Oct 01
CodeTemplarr:
Like it happened with Hamas right? Lol.
na shit full your brain. Them suppose just use Sledge hammer burst am into third and throwaway am inside soakaway. In Gaza as we speak Israeli IDF are still getting killed like dirty dog, blown into pieces with organs scattered everywhere. Na ogun go kee all of una. I don dey track all of una. You will all be buried headless

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by CodeTemplarr: 7:05am On Oct 01
timesupnababa:
na shit full your brain. Them suppose just use Sledge hammer burst am into third and throwaway am inside soakaway. In Gaza as we speak Israeli IDF are still killer like dirty dog, blown into pieces with organs scattered everywhere. Na ogun go kee all of una. I don dey track all of una. You will all be buried headless
Lol. Stop inhaling gutter.

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by Righteousness2(m): 7:06am On Oct 01
ISRAEL Cannot Enter Gaza...
ISRAEL Cannot Enter Rafah...
ISRAEL Cannot Enter Lebanon..

These were the noises of TERRORISTS online and offline.



You got to love this tiny little country, for one year fighting the Savages in Hamas, completely neutralizing a major genocidal Terror organization Hezbollah in Lebanon and now also taking on the Houthis.

Israel has no other choice‼️‼️

Put some Respect to the Name ISRAEL.
I'm standing proudly with The Holy Land and God's Chosen people.

💜🇮🇱💜🇮🇱

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by motayoayinde: 7:17am On Oct 01
Are you ashamed to give us the latest update?

I'll help you do it.

🇵🇸 Hezbollah fires several mortar shells towards military gatherings on the northern border 🚀🇱🇧

🚨 Al-Mayadeen correspondent:

Our photographer filmed the destruction of the destroyed tanks, but out of concern for the lives of the resistance youth, we will not publish it*

"After the resistance intensively targeted the enemy's movements in the orchards opposite the towns of Adaisseh and Kfar Kela, enemy helicopters were spotted moving behind the targeted area, and it is likely that they were to transport casualties from the place, and according to an eyewitness, the "chopping" was done, God willing"..

🇵🇸 Jewish media:

Several shells fired from southern Lebanon fell in the Maskaf Am area, which the Israeli army recently declared a closed military zone.

Eyewitnesses report that a helicopter is now landing on the northern border after Hezbollah bombarded the military gatherings with shells 🔥🔥🔥

[]

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by motayoayinde: 7:20am On Oct 01
timesupnababa:
mugu u go die just now like over 400 Israeli IDF termites burnt in their tanks this morning. Smell of roasted and barbecued IDF all over the border. Your contribution to the brainwashing and extending of imperialists propaganda will lead to your brutal and painful death.

Just leave them.
Their jubilations will turn to tears.

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by Botragelad: 7:53am On Oct 01
motayoayinde:
Are you ashamed to give us the latest update?

I'll help you do it.

🇵🇸 Hezbollah fires several mortar shells towards military gatherings on the northern border 🚀🇱🇧

🚨 Al-Mayadeen correspondent:

Our photographer filmed the destruction of the destroyed tanks, but out of concern for the lives of the resistance youth, we will not publish it*

"After the resistance intensively targeted the enemy's movements in the orchards opposite the towns of Adaisseh and Kfar Kela, enemy helicopters were spotted moving behind the targeted area, and it is likely that they were to transport casualties from the place, and according to an eyewitness, the "chopping" was done, God willing"..

🇵🇸 Jewish media:

Several shells fired from southern Lebanon fell in the Maskaf Am area, which the Israeli army recently declared a closed military zone.

Eyewitnesses report that a helicopter is now landing on the northern border after Hezbollah bombarded the military gatherings with shells 🔥🔥🔥

[]
Okay. Nasrallah is alive! 😂
Keep writing trash you copied from propaganda pages without Source.

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by pyyxxaro: 8:39am On Oct 01
ISRAEL e don do na , Person nor de follow una play self


Small Joke , una don de blow everywhere

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by foleskay(m): 8:39am On Oct 01
undecided
Imagine fighting on two fronts at the same time seamlessly without dropping a sweat. Give it to the israelis abeg!!

This war would hv been balanced if Israel is fighting an equally powerful country like north Korea. They won't dare cross that border.

But those Arab militants are just wasting their lives fighting a very sophisticated country with mere rockets. Why can't Iran supply hezbollah with fighter jets so they took can strike Israel. I doubt if any Hamas or Hezbollah fighter can handle or operate an aircraft. Awon oponu

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by SlavaUkraini: 8:40am On Oct 01
madridguy:
grin grin

They will come vertically and leave horizontally.

Hezbollah needs a New Leader.....

Go and Apply.....

You will resume work Vertically and retire Horizontally...... The same day

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by MANNABBQGRILLS: 8:40am On Oct 01
Brutal deaths to all terrorists disturbing the peace of the world 🌎 ,
Including our darling nation Nigeria 🇳🇬 ❤️

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by Seefinish: 8:40am On Oct 01
Israel spare no terrorists.
No mercy
No pity
No back down
Take no prisoner

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by Rebuke: 8:40am On Oct 01
Another one
Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by RollinTNDA: 8:40am On Oct 01
Perfect

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by Rebuke: 8:41am On Oct 01
madridguy:
grin grin

They will come vertically and leave horizontally.



?

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by Quelme: 8:41am On Oct 01
This will be the greatest undoing of the Western backed outpost in the middle east.

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by ThiefnubuBandit(f): 8:41am On Oct 01
Oh, Israel on your mandate we stand and will continue to stand!!!

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Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by GardenOfGod(m): 8:42am On Oct 01
This is cool
Re: Israel Launches A 'limited' Ground Offensive In Southern Lebanon(photos) by ARISHEM: 8:43am On Oct 01
Patapata it will end in draw.
As you kill their Ronaldo, they have a Messi that will replace him. If you kill their Messi, lewandoski will come out. If you kill lewandowski, haaland will show face. And so the circle will continue. Israel’s enemies are cursed to pop out like cockroaches after large scale annihilation.

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