• Israel starts ground operation in southern Lebanon
• IDF says operation is “limited, localised and targeted” against Hezbollah
• Israeli airstrikes continue as the ground offensive starts
• Lebanon has the right to defend its borders

Israel starts ground operation in southern Lebanon

Israeli troops have invaded Lebanon in what the military is calling a “limited, localised and targeted” ground operation against Hezbollah. 

The IDF says the targets inside southern Lebanon pose “an immediate threat to Israeli communities.” With almost a 1000 deaths in 7 days, this will be bloody invasion of a Sovereign state.

The ground operation started as Israeli airstrikes continued pounding the capital. The IDF says it has hit Beirut whilst officials in Lebanon say a building in a Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon was hit. 

On Monday, Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Qassem said the group was ready for an Israeli ground offensive and that the battle “may be long”.

More than 1,000 people have been killed in Lebanon in the past two weeks and around a million people have been displaced.