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Hezbollah said connected Thursday (March 19, 2026) its fighters were battling Israeli forces successful southbound Lebanon, arsenic a subject root connected the crushed said Israeli troops were dilatory advancing portion "systematically destroying" borderline towns.
Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East warfare connected March 2 erstwhile Iran-backed Hezbollah attacked Israel to avenge the sidesplitting of ultimate person Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Israel responded with aggravated strikes connected Lebanon that person killed astatine slightest 968 radical and displaced implicit a cardinal more, according to section authorities, and by launching crushed operations successful the south.
In a statement, Hezbollah said its fighters had ambushed Israeli troops entering the borderline municipality of Taybeh and destroyed a tank.
"The force past attempted to proceed its advance" from a adjacent area, but fighters "again targeted them with guided missiles, scoring nonstop hits and destroying 5 Merkava tanks", Hezbollah added.
"Enemy soldiers were seen fleeing the country of engagement."
The Israeli service announced connected Monday that it had launched "limited" crushed operations successful Lebanon.
A subject root successful southbound Lebanon told AFP that the Israeli service was advancing dilatory and "systematically destroying" the borderline villages it enters.
'Violent night'
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported a "violent night" successful Khiam and Taybeh, saying the towns were "targeted by respective airstrikes and subjected to dense artillery shelling that continued until dawn".
On Wednesday (March 18, 2026), Hezbollah said it had repelled an effort by "Israeli force soldiers to advance" successful Khiam.
In caller days, the radical has reported targeting Israeli forces connected the borderline with Lebanon and wrong Lebanese towns specified arsenic Khiam.
The municipality overlooks portion of confederate Lebanon and bluish Israel and was the archetypal constituent into which Israeli forces precocious aft the commencement of the war.
It was besides the tract of aggravated clashes betwixt Israeli forces and Hezbollah during their past warfare successful 2024.
The subject root connected the ground, who requested anonymity, said that Israeli soldiers "have astir captured the town".
"They beforehand 1 oregon 2 kilometres a time and instrumentality the clip to systematically destruct the towns they enter, specified arsenic Kfar Kila oregon Aitaroun," helium added.
"They bulldoze what is not destroyed by airstrikes oregon artillery" portion "they are engaged successful crushed warring against Hezbollah, whose men are warring successful tiny groups".
Israel has issued warnings to each residents southbound of the Zahrani River, much than 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the border, to evacuate, and has said it wants to make a buffer portion successful Lebanon to support residents of northbound Israel.
On Wednesday, the UN peacekeeping unit said it was profoundly acrophobic by a "violent escalation" successful Lebanon, citing "intensified aerial and crushed activity, and accrued beingness of Israeli forces wrong Lebanese territory".
