Hezbollah said its fighters clashed with Israeli forces in a town north of the Litani river on Wednesday, a day after Israel's military said it was expanding its ground operations in the country's south. In a statement, the group said its fighters "clashed with the enemy forces at point-blank range" in the town of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, located at the edge of an Israeli-declared "yellow line" in south Lebanon where its soldiers have been operating. Israeli strikes killed 31 people on Tuesday, four of them children, according to the Lebanese health ministry. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed to "crush" Hezbollah.
