Netanyahu orders military to expand invasion of southern Lebanon

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed his country’s military to further expand invasions of southern Lebanon, as regional tensions spike amid the United States-Israeli war on Iran. “I have just instructed to further expand the existing security buffer zone. We are determined to fundamentally change the situation in the north [of Israel],” Netanyahu said in a video statement from the Northern Command on Sunday, pushing forward his country’s stated bid to replicate the “Gaza model” of occupation. Netanyahu’s announcement came as Israeli forces advanced in multiple areas of southern Lebanon in a concerted push towards the Litani River in a bid to drive out Hezbollah, which entered the broader Iran war in early March with retaliatory attacks on Israel after the killing of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Reporting from Tyre in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera’s Obaida Hitto said that fighting between Hezbollah and Israel had “intensified” over recent hours. He said Israeli troops had reached a tributary of the Litani River south of the town of Qantara, on the eastern front near al-Muhaysibat. Subscribe to our channel: bit.ly
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