Netanyahu orders military to expand invasion of southern Lebanon

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Source: Aljazeera

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.

Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/29/netanyahu-announces-expansion-of-security-buffer-zone-in-south-lebanon

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1. So, will we know how many injuries and or deaths as of today?

I doubt it!

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2. He's escalating but does he have enough troops and military equipment or do we have to support him

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3. Maybe that's where the American troops are REALLY heading?

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4. I mourn for the Lebanese people.

South Lebanon will look like Gaza and then be occupied like Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of people will not be allowed to return to their homes and be forever refugees like the Palestinians.

Israel's Defense Minister said Israel is "operating on the Rafah and Beit Hanoun model in Lebanon" - two cities in Gaza that were utterly destroyed.

Declared shamelessly, right out in the open - knowing full well that no one is going to stop them or even say an effing word! I wonder what happened to the UN??

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5. Even odds that the annexation of Lebanon south of the Litani is the true goal of the war

Netanyahu and Likud have fooled the US into waging war with Iran so that they could do another land grab, annexing Lebanon south of the Litani River.

The Israeli state apparatus has waged aggressive war and committed genocide; it has annexed lands beyond its legal borders for the sole purpose of territorial expansion.

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6. Gaza's destruction whetted Bibi's appetite to steal other lands

He's gotten away with it. Annexation should just be called what it is--theft. I would like to see Bibi and trump sharing a jail cell. And Putin in the next cell.