{"id":87920,"date":"2026-03-30T14:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/israel-hezbollah-fighting-intensifies-in-south-lebanon-as-buffer-zone-push-risks-prolonged-war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:44:42","slug":"israel-hezbollah-fighting-intensifies-in-south-lebanon-as-buffer-zone-push-risks-prolonged-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/israel-hezbollah-fighting-intensifies-in-south-lebanon-as-buffer-zone-push-risks-prolonged-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Hezbollah fighting intensifies in south Lebanon as buffer zone push risks prolonged war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli forces have expanded ground operations deeper into southern Lebanon, aiming to establish a buffer zone to protect northern Israeli <!--more--> communities.<br \/>\nThe defence minister has ordered troops to destroy homes along the advance in what&#8217;s being described as a scorched earth policy.<br \/>\nIsraeli forces are pushing towards the Litani River, up to 30 kilometres from the border, whilst Hezbollah fighters engage in guerrilla warfare tactics to prevent Israel from consolidating territorial control. Air strikes have intensified, and for the first time in the conflict, Israeli fire has killed a Lebanese army soldier near Tyre.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Zeina Khodr reports from Beirut, Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on X: <a href=\"https:\/\/X.com\/AJEnglish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/X.com\/AJEnglish<\/a><br \/>\nFind us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera<\/a><br \/>\nCheck our website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out our Instagram page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/<\/a><br \/>\nDownload AJE Mobile App: <a href=\"https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Netanyahu #Lebanon #IsraelLebanonAttacks #SouthLebanonInvasion #Tyre #HezbollahIsraelTensions #LitaniRiver #Hezbollah #SouthLebanon #IsraelLebanonBufferZone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli forces have expanded ground operations deeper into southern Lebanon, aiming to establish a buffer zone to protect northern Israeli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}