The Israeli military has initiated limited ground operations aimed at Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon. Both Iranian state-aligned media and exile outlets reported the involvement of Israel's 91st Division in the cross-border incursion.
The Israeli military has crossed into southern Lebanon, initiating a ground offensive against Hezbollah. This escalation on the northern border coincides with heightened regional volatility following intense overnight explosions reported at strategic infrastructure sites, including Mehrabad Airport, in Tehran, Iran.
According to the opposition-aligned network Iran International, the Israeli army announced that its forces have begun "limited and targeted" ground operations against key Hezbollah positions in the south. The outlet noted that the military's stated objective for the operation is to strengthen the defensive line along Israel's northern borders.
Iranian state-aligned media platforms broadly echoed the reports of the incursion while maintaining their standard adversarial posture. The conservative news aggregator Akharin Khabar reported that the 91st Division of this regime has begun a limited military operation to confront Hezbollah on Lebanese soil. This specific deployment of the 91st Division was also circulated by parallel posts from other state-affiliated channels, including Fars International and Foreign Policy, and Hamyane Pezeshkian.
Sources uniformly report the initiation of Israeli ground operations in Lebanon, specifically noting the involvement of the 91st Division. State-aligned channels maintain their standard adversarial framing by referring to Israel as a regime, which has been translated directly without sanitizing or adding quotation marks, in accordance with the translation fidelity instructions. Background context regarding the explosions in Tehran was included to establish the day's broader regional security picture.