2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon

2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Part of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) and the Israeli–Lebanese conflict

  Israel
  Attested Hezbollah presence in Lebanon
  Lebanese territory under Israeli control
  Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Ghajar
  Syria
  Areas ordered evacuated by Israel

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Date1 October 2024[c] – present
(1 month and 4 days)
Location
Southern Lebanon
Status Ongoing
Belligerents
 Israel  Hezbollah
Allies:
 Lebanon[a][6]
UNIFIL[b]
Commanders and leaders
Israel Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel Yoav Gallant
Israel Herzi Halevi
Israel Ori Gordin
Israel Guy Levi[9]
Israel Elad Tzuri[10]
Israel Yeftah Norkin[11]		 Hezbollah Naim Qassem
Hezbollah Hashem Safieddine X
Lebanon Maurice Sleem
Lebanon Joseph Aoun
Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz
Chok Bahadur Dhakal
Jean-Jacques Fatinet
Axel Schulz [de]
Mochammad Ghoffar Ngismangil [id]
Units involved
List of units:
List of units:
Strength
Israel 15,000[32][33]
Per Hezbollah:[34]
Israel 70,000+ soldiers
Israel 100+ military vehicles		 Hezbollah 20,000–100,000[35]
80,000[36]
10,000[37][d]
Casualties and losses

Per IDF:
42 soldiers killed[e]
140 soldiers injured[41][42][43][44]
Per Hezbollah:[45]
95+ soldiers killed[46]
900+ soldiers injured[46]
42 Merkava tanks destroyed
4 military bulldozers destroyed

Per Al Jazeera:
900+ soldiers injured[47]		 Per IDF:
2,000+ Hezbollah fighters killed[48]
8 surrendered[49]
Thousands injured[50]
80% of pre-war Hezbollah rockets and missiles destroyed[51]
Per Lebanon:
7 Lebanese Army soldiers killed[52][53][54]
28 medics killed[55][56](including medics affiliated with Hezbollah[57])
40 search and rescue personnel killed[58]
Per UNIFIL:
20 UN peacekeepers wounded[59][60]
1.2 million Lebanese civilians displaced[61]

On 1 October 2024, Israel invaded Southern Lebanon in an escalation of the ongoing Israel–Hezbollah conflict, a spillover of the Israel–Hamas war. The conflict marked Israel's fourth invasion of Lebanon since 1978.

It followed a series of major attacks on Hezbollah in September that degraded its capabilities and devastated its leadership, beginning with the explosions of its communication devices.[62][63][64] This was followed by a massive Israeli aerial bombing campaign throughout Lebanon, killing over 800 Lebanese people in one week.[65] On 27 September, Israel assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike.[66][67]

On 30 September, Israel declared parts of its northern border with Lebanon as closed military zones.[68] At the start of the invasion, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) withdrew from parts of the Blue Line.[69] Israel said it aimed to take out Hezbollah's forces and infrastructure that could pose a threat to civilian communities in northern Israel.[70][46][71][72] Hezbollah said it aimed to pressure Israel by forcing it to fight on two fronts.[65]

The ground campaign marks the fifth invasion of Lebanese territory by Israel, following incursions of varying scale in 1948, 1978, 1982 and 2006.

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