2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon

2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Part of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present), the Middle Eastern crisis (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 See here for a more detailed map
Date 1 October 2024[c] – present (1 month, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Southern Lebanon Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Israel	Hezbollah Allies: Amal Movement[1] Islamic Group[2]  Houthi movement[3] Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine[4]  Palestinian Islamic Jihad[5] Islamic Resistance in Iraq[6]  Lebanon[a][8] UNIFIL[b]
Commanders and leaders
Benjamin Netanyahu Israel Katz Herzi Halevi Ori Gordin Guy Levi[11] Elad Tzuri[12] Yeftah Norkin[13]	Naim Qassem Hashem Safieddine X Maurice Sleem Joseph Aoun Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz Chok Bahadur Dhakal Jean-Jacques Fatinet Axel Schulz [de] Mochammad Ghoffar Ngismangil [id] Johan Effendi Mohd Salleh
Units involved
List of units:  Israel Defense Forces  Israeli Ground Forces  36th Division[14] 1st Infantry Brigade 6th Infantry Brigade 7th Armored Brigade[12] 188th Armored Brigade 282nd Artillery Brigade [he][15] 91st Division[14] 3rd Infantry Brigade[15] 8th Armored Brigade[15] 228th Infantry Brigade [he][16] 769th Territorial Brigade[17] 98th Division[14] 35th Paratroopers Brigade[18] 89th Oz Brigade[19] Unit 621 (Egoz) Unit 5515[20]  146th Division[21][22] Carmeli Brigade[13] 514th Armored Brigade [he][13] 213th Artillery Brigade [he][13] 226th Paratroopers Brigade[23] 210th Division HeHarim Brigade[24] Yahalom[25]  Israeli Air Force Unit 669[26]  Israeli Navy[27] General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Directorate[28] Unit 8200[29]	List of units: Hezbollah military wing Redwan Force[30][31] Imam Hussein Division[32] Aziz Unit[33] Nasser Unit[33] Bader Unit[33] Unit 4400[34] Engineering Corps[35] Artillery Corps[35] Amal military wing Al-Abbas Force[1] Fajr Forces   Yemeni Armed Forces (SPC) Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades  Al-Quds Brigades Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba Lebanese Armed Forces Garuda Contingent[36] MALBATT[37] 121st Infantry Battalion[38]
Strength
15,000[39][40] Per Hezbollah:[41] 70,000+ soldiers 100+ military vehicles	20,000–100,000[42] 80,000[43] 10,000[44][d]
Casualties and losses
Per IDF: 56 soldiers killed[e] 156 soldiers injured[48][49][50][51] Per Hezbollah:[52] 95+ soldiers killed[53] 900+ soldiers injured[53] 42 Merkava tanks destroyed 4 military bulldozers destroyed Per Al Jazeera: 900+ soldiers injured[54]	Per Hezbollah: 521+ Hezbollah members killed[55] Per IDF: Around 3,000 Hezbollah fighters killed[56] 8 surrendered[57] Thousands injured[58] 80% of pre-war Hezbollah rockets and missiles destroyed[59] (denied by Hezbollah)[60] Per Lebanon: 7 Lebanese Army soldiers killed[61][62][63] 28 medics killed[64][65](including medics affiliated with Amal Party[66]) 40 search and rescue personnel killed[67] Per UNIFIL: 34 UN peacekeepers wounded[68][69][70][71]
1.4 million+ Lebanese civilians displaced[72][73]

On 1 October 2024, Israel invaded Southern Lebanon in an escalation of the ongoing Israel–Hezbollah conflict, a spillover of the Israel–Hamas war. 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.^[74][75][76] This was followed by a massive Israeli aerial bombing campaign throughout Lebanon, killing over 800 Lebanese people in one week.^[77] On 27 September, Israel assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike.^[78][79]

On 30 September, Israel declared parts of its northern border with Lebanon as closed military zones.^[80] At the start of the invasion, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) withdrew from parts of the Blue Line.^[81] Israel said it aimed to take out Hezbollah's forces and infrastructure that could pose a threat to civilian communities in northern Israel.^{[82][83][84][85]} Hezbollah said it aimed to pressure Israel by forcing it to fight on two fronts.^[77]

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

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