Israel Launches Limited Ground Invasion of Lebanon

After months of cross-border incursions, Israel initiates a limited ground invasion of Lebanon. The invading Israeli commandos are supported by air cover and artillery barrages from inside Israel. More than a million Lebanese flee northwards away from the fighting in the south and in Beirut, with hundreds of Lebanese, Hezbollah fighters killed or wounded. Israel’s objective was too free totally southern Lebanon of Hezbollah actions and threats against northern Israeli population centers, so that Israeli’s  (some 65,000) could return to their homes evacuated in October 2023, when Hezbollah launched attacks there, to support Hamas’s attacks on southern Israel l.