Israel announces the deployment of another division in southern Lebanon after nearly a week of invasion

The Israeli Army announced this Monday the deployment of another division in Lebanese territory, after the beginning last week of the invasion of Lebanon after more than eleven months of fighting with the Shiite militia party Hezbollah.

Thus, he specified that the 91st Division “has begun limited and demarcated land activity in southern Lebanon” and explained that its members have been “remobilized” and “trained” after fighting “for almost a year” in northern Lebanon. the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli Army has argued that the aforementioned division “has been carrying out a defensive battle combined with many offensive operations since the beginning of the war to attack the enemy and its infrastructure in southern Lebanon by land and air.”

Israel has described its invasion of Lebanon as a “selective and limited” operation against Hezbollah’s “terrorist targets and infrastructure.” The offensive was launched after nearly two weeks of intensified attacks and has been paralleled by an intensification of bombings against the capital, Beirut, and other areas of the country.

Lebanese authorities have reported more than 2,000 deaths from Israeli attacks over the past year, a figure that has risen dramatically over the past two weeks. In addition, thousands of people have been injured and nearly 1.2 million have been forced to flee their homes.

The resurgence in hostilities is part of the clashes for nearly a year, after Hezbollah attacked Israeli territory a day after the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023 by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and other Palestinian factions. , which led Israel to unleash a bloody offensive against the Gaza Strip.