{"id":468759,"date":"2026-05-31T05:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T05:50:10","slug":"idf-pushes-past-litani-river-capturing-beaufort-ridge-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468759\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF pushes past Litani River, capturing Beaufort Ridge outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"

IDF ground troops have crossed the Litani River,<\/a> entering and securing the Beaufort Ridge and Wadi al-Saluki areas of southern Lebanon, the military announced on Sunday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The operation began several days ago with the goal of eliminating the threat Hezbollah poses to the citizens of northern Israel, and is currently expanding to additional areas.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the troops’ entry, the Israel Air Force conducted extensive support strikes against Hezbollah infrastructure in the area.<\/p>\n

Support fire for the ground troops also included artillery and tank fire.<\/p>\n

Further, the IDF added that it is operating near Nabatieh, a significant Hezbollah<\/a> stronghold in southern Lebanon, and is prepared to expand its operations there as well.<\/p>\n

During the First Lebanon War in 1982, the IDF’s Golani Reconnaissance Unit captured the outpost from terrorists who had been using the site to launch rockets toward the Galilee.<\/p>\n

The IDF held the outpost until May 2000, when Israel withdrew its forces from southern Lebanon<\/a> on the order of former prime minister Ehud Barak<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Israel’s withdrawal led to the collapse of the South Lebanon Army, creating a power vacuum in the region that Hezbollah took advantage of to rebuild its strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF ground troops have crossed the Litani River, entering and securing the Beaufort Ridge and Wadi al-Saluki areas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[91690,42,86,1031,4716,88,20426,47,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-468759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-golani","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israeli-air-force","tag-lebanon","tag-litani-river","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}