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Israel mounts rare airborne raid into eastern Lebanon as Hezbollah fires rockets and drones

Israeli forces carried out a rare overnight airborne operation, dropping troops into a town in eastern Lebanon while heavy Israeli strikes in the area killed more than a dozen, residents and Lebanese state media said. Iran-backed Hezbollah replied with rockets and drones and said it confronted an Israeli helicopter landing.

Discovered 2026-03-07T00:58:57.471755-08:00 | 2026-03-07T00:58:57.471755-08:00

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  • Cross-border escalation has immediate aviation and operational consequences: Israeli strikes and an overnight airborne insertion killed more than a dozen and triggered Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks; the situation has already led to aircraft relocations and regional airspace closures and flight disruptions.
  • Use of airborne troops and contested helicopter landings signals a widening of tactics near the Lebanon–Israel frontier and heightens risk to rotary- and fixed-wing operations in the area; this follows recent changes in strike posture and evolving air-defence deployments on the regional battlefield (source:55283a4e-65c6-43a0-80a9-56a08dfc0b5e) (source:77f4cce9-d996-47eb-8a28-4ac47e431ba4).

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2026-03-07T00:58:57.471755-08:00
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