Tel Aviv, May 31 -- The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) revealed that several days ago it launched what it called a "broad operation" in the Beaufort Ridge and the Wadi (stream) Saluki areas in southern Lebanon, in order to "destroy infrastructure and eliminate terrorists, as part of strengthening operational control in southern Lebanon, and to remove the direct threat to the Finger of the Galilee and Metula."

Also, The IDF crossed the Litani River and expanded the strikes on Hezbollah north of the river. The activity is expanding to additional areas at this moment.

Numerous ground forces, including infantry and armored, were deployed as part of an effort to expand the "forward defense line," the area in southern Lebanon the IDF is clearing...