{"id":55853,"date":"2026-03-27T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55853"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:02:34","slug":"israel-sends-more-troops-into-southern-lebanon-as-ground-invasion-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55853","title":{"rendered":"Israel sends more troops into southern Lebanon as ground invasion expands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Israeli military is sending more troops into southern Lebanon despite growing international\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/25\/spains-pm-says-israel-to-inflict-on-lebanon-same-destruction-as-in-gaza\">concern<\/a>\u00a0about Israel\u2019s deadly bombardment and push to deepen its invasion of Lebanese territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Israeli military said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/idfonline\/status\/2037190405863669786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social media post<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday that troops from Division 162 would operate in southern Lebanon \u201cwith the aim of expanding\u201d a so-called \u201cbuffer zone\u201d in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Division 162 is joining two other army divisions already operating in southern Lebanon, it said in a social media post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deployment of additional troops comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military planned to create \u201ca larger buffer zone\u201d in southern Lebanon to push back a missile threat from the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel launched intensified attacks on its northern neighbour in early March after Hezbollah fired rockets towards Israeli territory following the February 28 assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/3\/26\/iran-war-live-us-demands-tehran-accept-defeat-israel-pounds-lebanon\">US-Israel war on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Israeli military has carried out aerial and ground attacks across Lebanon while issuing mass forced displacement orders for residents of the country\u2019s south, as well as several suburbs of the capital, Beirut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: The Israeli military is sending more troops into southern Lebanon despite growing international\u00a0concern\u00a0about Israel\u2019s deadly bombardment and push to deepen its invasion of Lebanese territory. The Israeli military said in a&nbsp;social media post&nbsp;on Thursday that troops from Division 162 would operate in southern Lebanon \u201cwith the aim of expanding\u201d a so-called \u201cbuffer zone\u201d in the area. Division 162 is joining two other army divisions already operating in southern Lebanon, it said in a social media post. The deployment of additional troops comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military planned to create \u201ca larger&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55855,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55853\/revisions\/55855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}