[Ha'aretz] Amos Harel - Four Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and five others were wounded in a series of battles fought Thursday just north of Moshav Avivim on the Lebanon border. IDF soldiers hit dozens of Hizballah fighters who fired anti-tank weapons, heavy machine guns, and mortars. The IDF significantly expanded its ground operations in southern Lebanon on Thursday, sending in thousands of troops looking for Hizballah terrorists, bases, and weapons. IDF officers maintain that there is no intention to take and hold ground permanently, and insist that the operations will be clearing raids. Meanwhile, Hizballah fired 32 Katyusha rockets on northern Israel on Thursday, a significant drop from the more than 100 fired at Israel on Wednesday. Also Thursday , a collision between two IAF Apache helicopters west of Kiryat Shmona killed an airman and wounded three.
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