Days after the commander of the armed organization backed by Iran, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an airstrike, the Israeli ground operation got underway on September 30.
As Lebanon has been subjected to an aircraft bombardment for three weeks, which Lebanese authorities claim has resulted in over 1,000 deaths and driven up to a million people to evacuate their homes, Hezbollah has launched rockets into northern Israel.
Although Israel and Hezbollah have a long history of hostilities, the war in Gaza has led to a year of deadly cross-border warfare between the two groups.
Maps on this page will be updated frequently to further clarify the situation.
Tanks and Israeli soldiers that had assembled along the border crossed into Lebanon.
According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in order to destroy what it refers to as Hezbollah’s “terrorist infrastructure,” it is conducting “limited, localized, and targeted ground raids” in southern Lebanon.
