The Zionist entity forces on Tuesday launched a ground incursion into Lebanon, after ordering the military to take control of more positions inside Lebanon to create a buffer zone. The Lebanese army pulled back some of its forces to ensure its safety after Hezbollah attacked Zionist entity bases in support of Iran.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have authorized the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to advance and take control of additional strategic positions in Lebanon in order to prevent attacks on (Zionist entity) border communities,” Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement.
Military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin, in a separate statement, said troops were creating a buffer zone inside Lebanon. “In practice, Northern Command has moved forward, taken control of the dominating terrain, and is creating a buffer, as we promised, between our residents and any threat,” he said.
In response, the Lebanese army has redeployed soldiers from several recently established border positions on Tuesday following the Zionist army’s “escalation”, a Lebanese military source told AFP. The Lebanese troops “numbering in total eight to nine soldiers at each point, were redeployed to their bases because of the danger to their safety”, the Lebanese military said.
The Zionist entity promptly responded with large-scale strikes on Lebanon, where the government on Monday declared an immediate ban on Hezbollah’s military activities. By Tuesday, the Zionist military said it had already struck more than 160 Hezbollah targets “throughout south Lebanon”, including members of the Radwan Force, an elite fighting unit of Hezbollah. It also killed Hezbollah’s intelligence chief, Hussein Mukalled, it said.
Hezbollah said it targeted on Tuesday three military bases in the Zionist entity in response to the Zionist entity’s strikes on the group’s strongholds. Although the Zionist entity has maintained that it is not planning a full-scale ground invasion of Lebanon, the military has stated that “all options are on the table” to halt incoming rocket fire from Hezbollah.
Source: Kuwait Times
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