Israeli military says ‘limited’ operation against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon has begun

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******** military says ‘limited’ operation against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon has begun

Rescuers dig through the rubble of a building, a day after it was hit in an ******** strike, in the southern Lebanese village of Ain El Delb on September 30, 2024. 

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The ******** military says it has begun a “limited, localized” operation against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.

It said it was carrying out “targeted ground raids” in villages close to the ******** border. The targets, it said, pose an “immediate threat to ******** communities in northern *******.”

It announced early Tuesday that the operation has been planned in recent months and was launched after approval by political leaders.

The ******** military launched small ground raids against 

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 and sealed off communities along its northern border on Monday as ******** artillery pounded southern Lebanon and signals grew that more forces 

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 to ****** the Iran-backed militants.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said ******* informed the U.S. about the raids, which he said were described as “limited operations focused on Hezbollah infrastructure near the border.”

A view of debris of the building, where Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah lost his life, after ******** army’s airstrike, carried out by F-35 fighter jets, in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon on September 29, 2024.

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The sounds of airstrikes were heard throughout Beirut and smoke rose from the capital’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, shortly after ******* ordered residents of three buildings to evacuate.

There were no reports of direct clashes between ******** troops and Hezbollah militants, who last engaged in ground combat on Lebanese soil during a monthlong 

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But a Western diplomat in Cairo whose country is directly involved in 

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 said an ******** ground operation in Lebanon is “imminent.” The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation, said ******* had shared its plans with the U.S. and other Western allies, and conveyed the operation will “be limited.”

******* and Hezbollah have exchanged ***** almost every day since 

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 began, displacing tens of thousands of people in ******* and Lebanon. ******* says it will continue to strike Hezbollah until it is safe for families to return to their homes near the Lebanon border. Hezbollah has promised to keep ******* rockets into ******* until there is a cease-***** in Gaza.

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