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Israeli military says it has launched ground offensive in Lebanon

The Israeli military said its forces launched a "targeted and limited" invasion of southern Lebanon late on Monday, amid a flurry of air strikes on the capital Beirut and other densely populated areas, as Lebanese media said there were no confirmations yet that Israeli troops had entered the country. A statement from the Israeli army said that it was targeting villages in localised raids near the boundary that "pose an immediate and real threat to Israeli settlements on the northern...