[IsraelTimes] IDF orders additional Lebanese villages to evacuate as thousands of soldiers are deployed to join expanding ground offensive; Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets at Israel’s north
Two Israeli reservists serving on the northern border were killed in a mortar attack, authorities announced Monday, as the military said it was sending more troops into Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
amid a swiftly widening offensive against the Hezbollah terror group.
The deaths were announced as Hezbollah continued to fire rockets at northern Israel, launching dozens of projectiles at towns in the north towns a day after it managed to breach air defenses around Haifa for a first time.
Master Sgt. (res.) Etay Azulay, 25, from the West Bank border settlement of Oranit, and Warrant Officer (res.) Aviv Magen, 43, from the central town of Herut, were both on the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon when a mortar impacted near their position Sunday evening, the Israel Defense Forces said. Azulay was killed on the spot, while Magen died in a hospital on Monday morning. Both were members of the IDF’s elite 5515 combat mobility unit. The deaths bring the IDF’s toll since launching its ground operation in Lebanon to 11.
A third reservist with them at the time was seriously maimed.
On Sunday night, the army sent a third division into Lebanon to fight alongside two divisions already operating across the border. The move adds thousands of troops to Israel’s ground offensive, with the total number of soldiers deployed inside Lebanon now likely over 10,000.
The 91st "Galilee" Regional Division, which is normally responsible for the entire Lebanon border area, joins the IDF’s 98th and 36th divisions, which have been operating in southern Lebanon since last week.
Israel’s raids in southern Lebanon have focused on Hezbollah’s "centers of gravity" in southern Lebanon villages, where troops have so far found massive amounts of weapons, military sources said. Israel has said Hezbollah was planning a large-scale October 7-style attack on northern communities to massacre and kidnap Israeli civilians.
The IDF has said the operations in southern Lebanon will expand as needed, but that it still intends for the operations to end as quickly as possible — within a few weeks. However,
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there are signs that the fighting is set to expand.
On Monday morning, the IDF issued new calls to Lebanese civilians in more than two dozen villages and towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate immediately and head north of the Awali River. In recent days, the military has called on dozens of locales in southern Lebanon, including some north of the Litani River, to evacuate. The IDF said it would update the civilians when it is safe to return.
The 91st Division began ground operations inside southern Lebanon Sunday with three reserve brigades: the Alexandroni and Alon infantry brigades and the 8th Armored Brigade.
The division’s 769th "Hiram" Regional Brigade — responsible for the eastern portion of the border — was continuing defensive operations, the military added.
Amid the fighting, Hezbollah launched some 135 rockets at northern Israel through Monday evening, as Israel marked the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
attack.
Some 15 rockets were fired before 7 a.m. at the Karmiel area, a city of some 50,000 approximately 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the Lebanon border. Some of the rockets were intercepted and the rest struck open areas, the IDF said.
Shortly before 9 a.m., another 20 rockets were launched at the Western Galilee. At least one of the rockets landed in Kfar Vradim, causing damage to several cars. The IDF said most of the rockets launched in the attack were intercepted.
Several more rockets were fired at the Dovev area later in the morning, which all hit open land according to the IDF.
Rocket sirens also sounded in Acre, Nahariya, and suburbs of Haifa.
There were no reports of injuries in the attacks.
Aside from putting boots on the ground in southern Lebanon, the IDF has also pounded Hezbollah from the air, repeatedly hitting the Iran-backed group’s holdings near Beirut in recent days. Overnight, the IDF said it carried out strikes against Hezbollah intelligence sites and weapon depots in Beirut. Strikes were also carried out against the terror group’s sites in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley, including weapon depots, a command room, and a rocket launcher, the military added.
Later Monday evening, the IDF announced that its fighter jets had carried out a large wave of Arclight airstrike
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s against more than 120 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. The strikes, which lasted an hour, hit Hezbollah sites belonging to the terror group’s Southern Front, elite Radwan Force, rocket and missile division, and intelligence division, according to the military.
The IDF said that the Air Force has struck more than 100 Hezbollah sites in Beirut alone in the past two weeks. The IDF said the sites have included weapon depots, weapon manufacturing plants, and command centers.
The military in recent months identified Hezbollah moving weapons and manufacturing equipment from southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley to Beirut’s southern suburb, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh. The IDF believes that Hezbollah moved the assets in an attempt to prevent Israel from targeting them, as until recently, Israel largely refrained from strikes in Beirut.
And the suckers believed they’d be safe forever. Israel truly is blessed by God with the idiots who choose to be her enemies. Such strikes have now become a daily occurrence.
The IDF on Monday afternoon warned Lebanese civilians against entering the sea or being on the beach in southern Lebanon, as Israel continues its offensive against Hezbollah. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, issued the "urgent warning" to people on vacation, beachgoers, and anyone using boats for fishing or other uses from the Awali River — located north of Sidon — southward. He said the Israeli Navy will soon begin to operate against Hezbollah in the area. "For your safety, refrain from being at the sea or on the beach from now until further notice. Being on the beach, and boat movements in the area of the Awali River line to the south, poses a threat to your life."
Amid the ongoing tensions, Britannia’s Foreign Office announced that it had withdrawn the families of its embassy staff working in Israel due to the escalation in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and the risk of a wider regional conflict.
The foreign minister of La Belle France, which has been working with the US to broker a diplomatic solution between Israel and Hezbollah, said Monday that the French-US proposal for a ceasefire to end fighting in Lebanon remains on the table, with parties continuing to work on it.
Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said Israel’s security cannot be guaranteed with military force alone and will require a diplomatic solution.
None of them remember that first the Allies won the war against the Nazis, and only after they surrendered were the diplomats allowed to get involved. "Military success cannot be a substitute for a political perspective," Barrot told news hounds during a visit to Israel.
Rank idiocy. In a separate development overnight Sunday-Monday, the military said three drones launched from the east, a term used in the past by the IDF to describe attacks from Iraq, were shot down by the Israeli Air Force. In the first incident, at around 1 a.m. a drone heading toward Israel was intercepted outside of Israeli airspace, the IDF said. Hours later, shortly after 5 a.m., the military said two drones were shot down by the Israeli Air Force off the coast of Rishon Lezion. Sirens had sounded in Rishon Lezion and Palmachim amid the incident.
The Iran-backed Islamic Resistance® in Iraq took responsibility for the attack, claiming to have targeted a "military target" in Israel with a drone.
And they took a victory dance for it, too. On Sunday, the chief of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) Gen. Michael Kurilla held an assessment with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the Israeli military said.
"The general’s visit dealt with the security issues at hand, with an emphasis on Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and the northern front," the IDF said.
The visit came amid preparations in the IDF for a response to Iran’s attack against Israel with some 200 ballistic missiles last week, which Iran said was retaliation for the killing of Hezbollah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
The skirmishes resulted in 26 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, and — in addition to the 11 soldiers killed in the ground operation — the deaths of 22 IDF soldiers and reservists. The IDF’s toll in the ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon and during operations on the border stands at 11.
Two soldiers in northern Israel have been killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 516 members — including Nasrallah — who have been killed by Israel during the war, mostly in Lebanon but also some in Syria. Another 94 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have also been killed.
These numbers have not been consistently updated since Israel began its new offensive against Hezbollah in September, including the ground operation in which the military says at least 440 Hezbollah operatives have been killed.
IDF deploys a fourth division to south Lebanon for ground op against Hezbollah
[IsraelTimes] The IDF deployed a fourth division to southern Leb
 last night for ground operations against the Hezbollah terror group.
The military announces that its 146th Reserve Division began ground operations last night in the western sector of southern Lebanon.
The reserve division joins three standing army divisions — the 98th, 36th, and 91st — already operating in the central and eastern sectors of southern Lebanon.
The move adds thousands of troops to Israel’s ground offensive, with the total number of soldiers deployed inside Lebanon now likely over 15,000.
The operations were launched by the division with its Carmeli Reserve Infantry Brigade and Iron Fist Reserve Armored Brigade, with support from its 213th Artillery Regiment, the military says.
Israel’s ground operations in southern Lebanon have been described by the IDF as "limited, localized, and targeted raids," with the goal of demolishing Hezbollah’s infrastructure in the border area, especially in the villages adjacent to Israel, to enable residents of the north of Israel to return home. 
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