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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.
The Shin Bet and the Israel Police arrested and charged a 19-year-old Nazareth resident of spying for Hezbollah during the war. [101] Israeli police arrested four Israeli civilians for illegally entering into Lebanon. [102] The IDF said that it demolished Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon aimed towards Israel. [103]
The IDF said that the IAF struck militants and weapon caches in the vicinity of an aid warehouse, after gunmen launched rockets from the area towards Israel. [342] An Israeli airstrike on a school serving as a shelter for displaced people in Gaza City killed at least seven people including a woman and her infant and injured 12 others.
On October 1, under heavy air support by the Israeli Air Force, the 98th Division penetrated into the Nurit area. [11] Soon the IDF troops entered the village and systematically began destroying Hezbollah's above ground and underground infrastructure including a large scale tunnel including an underground weapons warehouse, a command room, and ...
Shortly after the onset of the Israel–Hamas war in October 2023, Hezbollah joined the conflict, citing solidarity with Palestinians, [95] which quickly escalated into regular cross-border military exchanges impacting areas in or around northern Israel, southern Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights of Syria. [96]
After the war, Israel continued to hold borderland buffer zone in southern Lebanon with the aid of proxy militants in the South Lebanon Army (SLA). [79] In 2000, Israel withdrew from South Lebanon to the UN-designated and internationally recognized Blue Line border. [80] Hezbollah quickly took control of the area.
There are two different Israeli versions about how the battle of Maroun al-Ras actually started. According to Gal Hirsch, commander of the 91st Division, a unit of 18 soldiers from the elite Maglan special reconnaissance were sent out to occupy a Hezbollah position on mount Jall ad-Dayr (before 2000 the place of the IDF outpost Shaked), from which the nearby IDF base of Avivim had been shelled ...
[60] After the war a committee, headed by Col. (res) Yoram Yair, sharply criticized the conduct of 91st Division during the war, including the battle of Ayta ash-Sha'b. The battle was called "the black hole of the war".