Middle East & Africa | The war in Lebanon

Just inside Lebanon, Israeli soldiers debate how far to go

They are 2km inside the country, but prepared to go farther

Israeli troops patrolling in the southern Lebanon's Naqoura region near the border.
Photograph: AFP
|SOUTH LEBANON

AS ISRAEL’S invasion of Lebanon rages, amid mounting casualties and fierce missile and rocket exchanges across the border, one issue is becoming clearer: the extent of Hizbullah’s fortifications near the border, and the potential threat that they pose to Israel in the form of an October 7th-style attack from the north. But another looming issue is fundamentally unclear: how deep into Lebanon Israel’s invasion will go, and the extent to which it will devastate and destabilise the country.

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