🇮🇱 🇱🇧 ⚠️ Combat zone widens in #Lebanon as #Israel and #Hezbollah escalate attacks:
#BEIRUT, Lebanon — Ukraine-style warfare came to Lebanon this week as Hezbollah started posting video taken from its suicide drones colliding with Israeli tanks rolling into the south of the country.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, for his part, promised to bring Israel’s #Gaza modus operandi to Lebanon, as his country’s military, named the Israel Defense Forces, tries to carve out a “security zone” in the south.
The Israeli military will follow “the model of #Rafah and #BeitHanoun,” he said, referring to two Gaza cities the #IDF mostly destroyed.
The announcements promised a new type of warfare on an old battlefield: South Lebanon is now being invaded by Israel for the fifth time since 1978, this time in response to Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel on March 2 to protest the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader.
Katz has ordered the IDF to establish a “security zone” south of Lebanon’s Litani river — about 20 miles from the Israeli border — to stop Hezbollah firing rockets and missiles into northern Israel.
Meanwhile, Israel has pushed on with air strikes it says target Hezbollah officials and infrastructure and has ordered the zone evacuated, displacing 1.2 million people who have sought refuge further north.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah has meanwhile surprised Israel with the depth of its missile and rocket stocks as it continues to rain salvoes on northern Israel.
More: https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2026/03/27/combat-zone-widens-in-lebanon-as-israel-and-hezbollah-escalate-attacks/
Good analysis of IDF white phosphorus use to scorch and raze the landscape and civilians, will likely continue to be a tactic as Israel aims to control more of Lebanon: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/09/lebanon-israel-unlawfully-using-white-phosphorus
March 27 (Reuters) - More than 370,000 children have been forced from their homes in Lebanon amid Israel's offensive against Hezbollah, with at least 121 children killed and 399 injured, UNICEF's representative in Lebanon, Marcoluigi Corsi, said on Friday. UNICEF says 19,000 children are uprooted daily, many repeatedly, with no safe refuge. Bridges destroyed leave 150,000 isolated, schools serving as shelters interrupt education, and displaced women face higher risks of exploitation, while aid access remains limited.
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