IDF prepares to advance to Litani:
Senior officers said that they believed the IDF would meet the goal it had set for itself by the end of the week: recreating the zone Israel maintained in south Lebanon from 1982 until the army withdrew in 2000.Posted on 03 August 2006 @ 19:33 GMTMeanwhile, IDF reservists operating in the western sector of southern Lebanon on Thursday killed four Hizbullah operatives, destroyed two rocket launchers and an arms warehouse.
Senior officers stressed that the military did not plan to rebuild the outposts it had maintained in Lebanon until 2000, but said that troops were under orders to take up key positions from which they would could control southern Lebanon.
The next stage, the officers said, was for the IDF to sweep through the villages there to eliminate Hizbullah.