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91st Division logo, at Biranit entrance.. The Israel Defense Forces 91st Division (Hebrew: אוגדה 91), known also as the Galilee Formation (Hebrew: עֻצְבַּת הַגָּלִיל, Utzbat HaGalil), is a territorial division in the IDF Northern Command, responsible for the front with Lebanon, from Rosh HaNikra to Mount Hermon.
A military engagement began on 1 October 2024 in the village of Ayta al-Shaab between Israel and Hezbollah, amid the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Background On 1 October 2024, Israel began an invasion of Lebanon as part of the 2024 Israel–Hezbollah war and the Israel–Hezbollah conflict , results of the spillover of the Israel–Hamas war .
Israel Defense Forces Israeli Ground Forces. Northern command. 36th division [24] Golani Brigade [25] [26] 188th Armored Brigade. 53rd Battalion [27] 91st Division. 869th Battalion [28] 300th Territorial Brigade [29] 8th Armored Brigade [30] 210th division [31] 146th Division. Alon Brigade Battalion 5030 [32] Yiftach Brigade. 8679th unit [33 ...
An Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire without a deal for Gaza would be a blow to Hamas, whose leaders had hoped the expansion of the war into Lebanon would pressure Israel to reach a comprehensive ceasefire.
Two security sources in Lebanon described him as a leading figure in the Iran-backed group's rocket division. Israel's military later said the air force also conducted "extensive strikes" on ...
[40] [41] The border between Israel and Lebanon was at this time was nicknamed the Good Fence. Fearing loss of commercial access to the port of Beirut, in June 1976 Syria intervened in the civil war to support the Maronite dominated government, [42] and by October had 40,000 troops stationed within Lebanon. Map showing power balance in Lebanon ...
Human Rights Watch (HRW), "Flooding South Lebanon", Israel's Use of Cluster Munitions in Lebanon in July and August 2006, February 2008 Matthews, Matt M., "We Were Caught Unprepared: The 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli War" , The Long War Series Occasional Paper 26, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center Combat Studies Institute Press Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2006
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot traveled to Lebanon two days prior to the start of the invasion, stating France "stands with Lebanon" ahead of a war "it did not choose". [425] On 8 October, he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rhetoric on Israel's military operations in Lebanon a "provocation". [424]