Lebanese state media reported on Wednesday that the Israeli army entered the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, about six kilometers from the Lebanon-Israel border."The town of Khiam is witnessing continuous artillery shelling, while the Israeli enemy army penetrated into the town," state media said.A Lebanese military source told AFP on Tuesday that Israel had launched a ground incursion into a border area in southern Lebanon, in parallel with its campaign of airstrikes.
Khiam has been traditionally a Hezbollah stronghold, and Israel bombed it repeatedly in the previous war.
Google Earth shows that Khiam is on relatively high ground and it overlooks northern Israeli towns like Metula. It is definitely strategic and important for the IDF to keep Hezbollah out of that area.
So far, Israel has been largely successful in stopping Hezbollah rockets and drones. The USS Gerald Ford is nearby but I have not seen it doing anything yet, and if its purpose was deterrence against Hezbollah it clearly has not done that. It will be interesting to see if it gets involved in any level.
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