Troops enter built-up neighborhoods in the south and east. Heavy fighting reported in Khan Younis, Beit Lahiya, and Jabaliya. Iran threatens to cut off Hamas funding if cease-fire implemented.
At least three Katyusha rockets are reported to have struck in western Galilee, wounding two Israelis; IDF returns fire. Israeli troops are poised to strike in southern Gaza.
The operation may be expanded into southern Gaza. Israeli leaders are open to a political solution as reports indicate Hamas' command and control is in disarray.
Israeli troops meet resistance in northern Gaza on the second day of ground operations designed to rout Hamas' military and end the missile attacks into southern Israel.
The Long War Journal's roundup of the major developments in the primary and secondary theaters during the past year.
A year-end roundup of the major developments in the Long War in the primary and secondary theaters across the globe.
Hamas fighters pose in President Abbas' office in Gaza. Hamas gains control of the Gaza Strip, Israel's strategic situation has worsened The Palestinian Civil War in the Gaza Strip has ended with Hamas defeating Fatah, its long time rival....
Disarming Hezbollah no longer an option Israel's failure to fully pursue Hezbollah in the region below the Litani River in southern Lebanon as well as in southern Beirut and the Bekaa Valley is a model of what not to do...
With the cessation of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel largely holding after 24 hours, it is time to look at the likely winners and losers of the Hezbollah-Israel war. Israel spent the weekend scrambling to reach the Litani River and...
Southern Lebanon. Green indicates Israeli occupied town; red IDF warned towns of operations; yellow Israeli airstrikes; orange clashes. Click map to view. The government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has given the Israeli Defense Force the final approval to...
The Israeli Cabinet vote on the authorization for the Israeli Defense Force to expand ground operations in southern Lebanon highlights the government's lack of a cohesive plan at the war's outset and the hesitation to take the fight directly to...
Southern Lebanon. Green indicates Israeli occupied town; red IDF warned towns of operations; yellow Israeli airstrikes; orange clashes. Click map to view. Israeli Defense Force commandos have conducted another behind the lines raid in Hezbollah territory, this time in...
“We are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media. And that we are in a media battle in a race for the hearts and minds of our...
Southern Lebanon. Green indicates Israeli occupied town; red IDF warned towns of operations; yellow Israeli airstrikes; orange clashes; dark blue IDF commando raid. Click map to view. The naval commandos of Flotilla 13, one of the Israeli Defense Force's...
The Israeli government continues the debate over the shape of the proposed buffer zone in southern Lebanon, as well as the shape of the campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Haaretz reports that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir...
Southern Lebanon. Green indicates Israeli occupied town; red IDF warned towns of operations; yellow Israeli airstrikes; orange clashes. Click map to view. The Israeli Defense Force is probing hard across the entire Lebanese border, from Metulla to Marwahin. Eight...
Location of Israeli airstrikes in the Bekaa Valley and Tyre, and the raid on Baalbek. Click map to view. Israeli commandos made a bold strike deep into Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, the heart of Hezbollah's empire. Israeli helicopters, backed by...
Southern Lebanon. Green indicates Israeli occupied town; red IDF warned towns of operations; yellow Israeli airstrikes; orange clashes. Click map to view. The government of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to "expanded ground operations in Lebanon," after an...
Southern Lebanon. Green indicates Israeli occupied town; red IDF warned towns of operations. Click map to view. After the airstrike in the Lebanese town of Qana, which killed 57 civilians, Israel has enforced a unilateral 48 hour cessation of...
The skill and training of Hezbollah's Army in southern Lebanon becomes clearer after details emerge about Wednesday's fighting in Bint Jubayl, where the Israeli Defense Force's elite Golani Brigade and Hezbollah fighters have been slugging it out since last week....
As the smoke clears from the fighting in the Lebanese border town of Bint Jubayl, Hezbollah's military capabilities become clearer. Today, 8 Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade's 51st Battalion were killed and 22 wounded during a "well-planned Hezbollah ambush...
Southern Lebanon. Green indicates Israeli occupied town; red IDF warned towns of operations, orange recent clashes. Click map to view. The Israeli Defense Force's Golani Brigade has taken the town of Bint Jubayl, Hezbollah's southern command center, and is...
Southern Lebanon. Green indicates Israeli occupied town; red IDF warned towns of operations. Click map to view. The Golani Brigade continues to slug it out with Hezbollah between the towns of Maroun al-Ras and the Bint Jubayl on the...
Southern Lebanon. Green indicates Israeli occupied; red IDF warned of operations. Click map to view. The Israeli Defense Force is probing along the Lebanese frontier. Earlier today the IDF took control of Maroun al-Ras. Israeli army units have also...
Fighting in the Maroun al-Ras / Avivim region. Click map to view. An unknown sized force of Israeli mechanized infantry units are pushing into the Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras. This town is the scene of the Hezbollah ambush...
In Worst Case Scenario: Hezbollah's Conventional Forces: Hezbollah's Conventional Forces, we discussed Hezbollah's surprising conventional military prowess and weaponry, and reported of an ambush on a unit operating in Lebanon near Avivim. Haaretz reports that four soldiers from the Golani...
The Israeli Defense Forces and Hezbollah have fought pitched battles over the past two days in the region around Avivim. Ynet News reports nine Israeli soldiers were wounded during the fighting, and two were killed in the nearby town of...
Israeli troops have entered southern Lebanon for the second time in two days. Like the last raid, this one had the limited objective of destroying Hezbollah strong points on the Lebanese border, as well as "searching for tunnels and mines"...
Range of Iranian built missiles possibily in Hezbollah's arsenal. Map & graphics courtesy of Kathryn Cramer. Click map to view. After a weekend of repeated Hezbollah missile strikes into Israel, including hits in Afula and the surrounding communities, and...
The Iranian C802 / Chinese Jing YJ-82. Click photo to view. In last evening's post, "The War Widens, Hezbollah Strikes Egyptian, Israeli Ships with UAVs," we reported the Israeli warship and an Egyptian civilian vessel were likely hit with...
The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has escalated, as Hezbollah has conducted two sea strikes against an Israeli warship and an Egyptian civilian ship, possibly a cruise liner. While initial reports are stating an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was used...
The Raad. Click image to view. The rocket attack on the northern Israeli city of Haifa has raised the stakes in the very hot war between Israel and Hezbollah, and increases the possibility of widening the conflict with Syria...
Map of Hezbollah rocket strikes in northern Israel. Click map to view. Since the Hezbollah raid on an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border and kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, and the follow on Israeli raids into Lebanon attacking...
Imad Fayez Mugniyah Hezbollah has conducted a highly successful raid into Israeli territory, attacking a Israeli Defense Force outpost along the Israel-Lebanese border, killing three soldiers and capturing two after they were wounded. Four Israeli soldiers were killed when...
