Third Israeli division redeployed to join invasion force as Israeli operations expand rapidly on multiple fronts
has insisted that its week-long ground operation was intended to be “limited” and “targeted”, elements of three Israeli divisions are now involved in the fighting after the IDF said in a statement that its 91st Division had joined the ground incursion overnight.
On the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack, Israel’s year-long conflict is expanding rapidly on multiple fronts, including the expectation of a major and imminent retaliation against Iran for last week’sThe widening conflict risks further drawing in the United States, which has provided crucial military and diplomatic support to Israel. Iran-allied militant groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen have joined in with long-distance strikes on Israel.
. and most of his top commanders. The fighting is the worst since Israel and Hezbollah fought a month-long war in 2006. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon , created to oversee the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon after Israel’s 1978 invasion, refused the Israeli military’s request to vacate some of its positions in advance of the ground incursion.
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