Troops have been operating inside Lebanon for days but it looks like a much larger operation, or series of operations, is planned:
Israel massed tanks and troops on its border with Lebanon and called up reserves Friday, announcing plans for a ground operation to destroy Hezbollah’s tunnels, hideouts and weapons stashes.
Early Saturday Israeli aircraft and artillery pounded Lebanese roads and villages in the path of its troops. Witnesses said the attacks appeared focused on areas across the border from where the Israeli military presence was heaviest.
Israeli officials insist that the mission is to fight Hezbollah and return. Occupation is not an option:
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz told reporters in Tel Aviv on Friday that any military incursion into Lebanon will be limited in scope.
“We will fight terror wherever it is because if we do not fight it, it will fight us. If we don’t reach it, it will reach us,” Halutz said in a nationally televised news conference. “We will also conduct limited ground operations as much as needed in order to harm the terror that harms us.”
When the army presented its plans for an operation in Lebanon, the timeframe that it provided was one of “weeks”.
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