Report: IDF Planning Ground Offensive as Lebanon’s Hezbollah Declares “Existential Battle” Against Israel
Axios: “Israel is planning to significantly expand its ground operation in Lebanon, aiming to seize the entire area south of the Litani River and dismantle Hezbollah’s military infrastructure…”
After Hezbollah intensified its drone and rocket attacks on Israel, the Israeli military is reportedly planning to launch a ‘massive’ ground offensive against the Iranian proxy terrorist group in Lebanon. “Israel is planning to significantly expand its ground operation in Lebanon, aiming to seize the entire area south of the Litani River and dismantle Hezbollah’s military infrastructure, Israeli and U.S. officials say,” Axios reported Friday night.
After Hezbollah entered the conflict two weeks ago by firing rockets into northern Israel, the Israeli military renewed limited counter-terrorism ground raids into Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon.
“The IDF has had three armored and infantry divisions on the Lebanese border since the start of the Iran war, with some ground forces conducting limited incursions over the past two weeks,” the news outlet added. “On Friday, the IDF announced it’s sending reinforcements to the border and mobilizing additional reserves ahead of the expanded ground operation.”
The speculations of an Israeli ground operation come as Hezbollah chief, Naim Qassem, declared that his terrorist group was in “existential battle” against the Jewish state. Since Wednesday night, Hezbollah ramped up its rocket attacks on Israel, coordinating its barrages with Iranian ballistic missile fire.
“Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem claimed in a speech on Friday that Lebanon is engaged in what he called a “legitimate defensive battle against Israeli and American aggression” as he tried to justify his terrorist organization’s decision to join the fray following joint US-Israeli strikes in Iran,” the Israel National News reported. “He framed Hezbollah’s actions as a response and vowed that the group would remain steadfast on the battlefield, regardless of the sacrifices, describing the confrontation as an “existential battle.”
IDF hits Hezbollah command centers in Beirut strike, destroys weapon storage facility in south Lebanon
Responding to Hezbollah’s relentless aerial attack against Israeli towns and cities, the IDF targeted the terrorist group’s command and control in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut.
“Yesterday (Friday), the IDF completed several additional waves of strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut and southern Lebanon,” the Israeli military announced on Saturday. “Additional command centers established by the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Beirut were struck and destroyed by the IDF. This included Hezbollah command centers from which terrorists operated to advance terror attacks against the State of Israel and its residents.”
“Since the start of Operation Roaring Lion, the IDF has struck approximately 110 Hezbollah command centers,” the military disclosed.
The Israeli military dropped flyers in Beirut earlier today. One of the leaflets contains instructions and a QR code to contact the IDF's Human Intelligence unit if Lebanese want to share information on Hezbollah.
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The IDF did something similar in Gaza and routinely dropped… pic.twitter.com/cdtu5uLSYw— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) March 13, 2026
On Friday, “IDF identified Hezbollah terrorists carrying rockets into a weapon storage facility in the Al-Majadel area in southern Lebanon,” the military said. “In a matter of minutes, the Israeli Air Force struck the warehouse and eliminated the terrorists.”
Op Epic Fury, Day 14: IDF destroys Iranian Space Agency’s key lab, factory producing air defense systems
As the Operation Epic Fury enters its fourteenth day, Israeli fighter jets “dismantled” the main research center of the Iranian Space Agency.
“As part of the [ongoing]strikes, the IDF dismantled the regime’s primary space research center, which is part of the Iranian regime’s forces,” the military said in a statement on Saturday. “The center contained strategic laboratories used for research, including developing military satellites for a range of purposes including surveillance, intelligence collection, and directing fire toward targets across the Middle East.”
WATCH: The IDF strikes dozens of targets in Tehran, dismantling the main research center of the Iranian Space Agency and hitting an air-defense systems production factory, dealing a blow to Iran’s military capabilities pic.twitter.com/APgS2K0rsy
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) March 14, 2026
They also struck a factory producing air defense forces. “The IDF also struck several Iranian terror regime aerial defense systems production sites. As part of the strikes, the IDF struck a key factory used to produce Iranian terror regime air defense systems,” the statement added. “The strike significantly degrades the Iranian terror regime’s ability to rehabilitate its aerial defense array.”
Shiraz International Airport in Iran after being bombed.
Additional reports of strikes in Tehran and Qom. pic.twitter.com/hUT2eUWLM5
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) March 13, 2026
IDF eliminates senior intel operatives of Iran’s Emergency War Command
Senior intelligence operatives of Iran’s “Khatam al-Anbiya” emergency command, responsible for coordinating war-time military operations.
On Friday, “the Israeli Air Force, acting on precise IDF intelligence, carried out a targeted strike in Tehran and eliminated Abdollah Jalali-Nasab and Amir Shariat, senior officials in the Intelligence Directorate of the “Khatam al-Anbiya” Emergency Command, which is directly subordinate to the leader of the Iranian terror regime,” the Israeli military said in a statement on Saturday afternoon.
🔴ELIMINATED: Abdollah Jalali-Nasab & Amir Shariat, senior intelligence officials of the “Khatam al-Anbiya” Emergency Command
The two senior commanders were key figures in the Iranian intelligence community and close to the leadership of the Iranian terrorist regime. pic.twitter.com/fhdVnMPfsj
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 14, 2026
“Following the elimination of the head of the Intelligence Directorate, Saleh Asadi, during the opening blow of Operation Roaring Lion, Jalali and Shariat were appointed to replace them. The two senior intelligence commanders were key figures in the Iranian intelligence community,” the IDF statement added.
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I should hope it’s an “existential battle” for Hezbollah. And I hope they lose.
I suspect no one is going to demand Israel stop this time. By no one, I mean no one of importance (the US).
Dear Hezbollah, define the trendy word existential.
Israel can do whatever they want. We can support them with airstrikes but 100% NOT on board with participating in a ground battle.
No need for US airstrikes on Hezbollah. Israel can take out that trash alone.
And they are willing and able to do it.
It’s nice for them to have a US POTUS that won’t actively hinder them from bringing the hammer down on terrorists.
Or encourage terrorism by sending pallets of cash to the primitives.
Yep. Israel would be not only justified but wise to use the moment to drive Hezbollah out of Lebanon or at least disrupt them on the ground. They probably won’t have a better opportunity for some time.
Let’s see. Lebanon is supposed to reign in Hezbollah. :Lebanon want’s a cease fire with Israel. Hezbollah continues to fire off missiles and threatens Israel with more destruction. Ok. Got it. Israel has my approval to decimate everything and everyone in Lebanon with 16 miles of the border. Burn it all down.
In addition please flatten Hezbollah morons and facilities no matter where they are located in Lebanon or Syria. Kill them all. Let God sort them out.
By the way the UN was supposed to keep Hezbollah away from the border. They are worse than useless.
yeah
boots on the ground finishes the job UNLESS you are willing to destroy the whole place and the west wont do that…the leftists will
be so far the good guys wont do it
I dont want it either
but then the war will continue
its like not stopping blmplo on usa streets
they/lefty dont debate
they only want bloodshed