More than a month after war erupted in the Middle East following USA-Israeli strikes on Iran, the IDF is pressing ahead with an offensive on its border that threatens to drive hundreds of thousands from their homes, Jessie Williams reports.
More than five weeks into the USA-Israeli war on Iran, aid agencies have warned that attacks on Lebanon have been taken straight from the Gaza playbook and may amount to war crimes.
The humanitarian situation in Lebanon is rapidly deteriorating, with nearly 1,500 people killed, including 130 children, since Israel dragged the country into the regional war on 2 March, 2026.
Over one million people have been displaced, according to aid organizations.
As well as an intense bombing campaign, the Israeli army has invaded the country, with plans to occupy swathes of the south in order to create a “buffer zone” along its northern border.
It has said that it must do this in order to push back Hezbollah, which has fired almost 5,000 rockets, missiles and drones at Israel since the outbreak of the conflict.
I have now instructed to further expand the existing security zone in order to finally thwart the threat of invasion and to push the anti-tank missile fire away from our border, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video on 29 March after a visit to the Israeli military’s northern command confirming Israel would expand its buffer zone to encroach further into Lebanon.
t is a repeat of history: Israel occupied southern Lebanon from 1982 to 2000 during the country’s civil war. The Israeli military previously told The Independent about the operation, which has been dubbed Roaring Lion:
Regarding the ‘buffer zone’, the deployment of IDF troops along the southern border of Lebanon was made in order to provide an additional layer of defense for the residents of northern Israel, to continue preventing any emerging threats, and to protect against any attempts to infiltrate into the territory of the Zionist State of Israel.
It emphasizes that Israel operates against the Hezbollah terrorist organization, and not against the Lebanese Armed Forces or Lebanese civilians.
Independent / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
Bufferzone in Gaza (Egypt), West Bank (Jordan), Golan Heights (*Syria) and now also Lebanon? So invading other countries is okay with the UN?
Looks like it GC a bigger bunch of liar,s /hypocrites has never existed . Forget ” buffer zone ” -known as Lebensraum or to Netanyahu “Greater Israel ” who copies Herr Hitler to the letter but in his case says God told him to do it and so gets the backing of evangelical christians in the USA -so it must be okay in Donalds eyes . You cant reason with megalomania its a fixed totalitarian condition of the mind that requires long term treatment in a guarded mental institution, Herr Hitler when defeated committed suicide that hasn’t happened yet to… Read more »
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