2026-03-30
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister,
ordered the Israeli Defence Forces to expand its existing security zone in southern Lebanon.
Israel has sent more soldiers across the border in recent days to suppress Hezbollah,
a Shia militia fighting on behalf of Iran.
On March 24, Israel Kant, the Defence Minister,
suggested that the IDF should go as far as the Latani, a river 20 miles north of the border.
The Speaker of Iran's Parliament said that America is secretly planning a ground invasion and that Iran is waiting.
On Saturday, about 3,500 American marines and sailors arrived in the Middle East on board the USS Tripoli,
an amphibious warship.