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IDF’s Quiet Ground Push and Phosphorus Reports Deepen Southern Lebanon’s War Zone

Israeli forces are conducting intensive operations inside a so‑called “yellow zone” in southern Lebanon, with overnight explosions reported across several villages and Lebanese outlets accusing the IDF of firing phosphorus shells at the Ali al‑Taher ridge. The grinding campaign is turning border communities into a layered war zone, raising hard questions for civilians, Hezbollah, and regional powers about how far this front will expand.

Israeli forces are quietly pushing deeper into southern Lebanon while the world’s attention is fixed elsewhere, according to battlefield summaries and local reporting that point to intensive ground operations and heavy bombardment across the border strip. An assessment circulated on 12 August described the Israel Defense Forces operating “intensively inside the yellow zone in southern Lebanon,” an area they have held throughout the recent period. The same reporting noted a series of “significant explosions” in various villages overnight as part of ongoing Israeli activity up to midnight the previous day. While Israel has acknowledged operations aimed at Hezbollah and allied groups along the border in recent months, much of this…

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