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Posted: 2024-10-10T17:57:14Z | Updated: 2024-10-10T17:57:14Z

JERUSALEM (AP) Israels ground invasion in Lebanon stretched into its second week, as the Hezbollah militant group fired hundreds of rockets deep into Israel with no end in sight to the escalating conflict.

More than 1,400 people have been killed in Lebanon mostly in airstrikes and over a million displaced since the fighting intensified in mid-September. At least 15 Israeli soldiers and two civilians have been killed since the ground operation began, and more than 60,000 people have been displaced from towns along the border for more than a year.

Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, a day after Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, attacked southern Israel, which sparked the war in Gaza. Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged fire almost every day since, coming close to a full-fledged war on several occasions but stepping back from the brink until this month.

Heres what to know about the current ground incursion in southern Lebanon:

What is the aim of Israeli militarys ground invasion?