BEIRUT (Dispatches) — 
Israeli ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon since they invaded six weeks ago, before pulling back early Saturday after fierce battles with Hezbollah fighters, Lebanese state media reported.
Zionist troops occupied a strategic hill in the southern Lebanese village of Chamaa, about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the border early Saturday, the state-run National News Agency reported. It said Israeli troops were later pushed back from the hill.
It added that Israeli troops detonated the Shrine of Shimon the Prophet in Chamaa as well as several homes before they were beaten back.
The incursion on the ground came as Israeli warplanes bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs as well as several other areas in southern Lebanon including the port city of Tyre.
The morning strike in Beirut hit an area known as Dahiyeh. The increase of Israeli violence came as Lebanese and Hezbollah officials are studying a draft proposal presented by the U.S. earlier this week on ending the war.
Since late September, the occupying regime of Israel has dramatically escalated its bombardment of Lebanon. More than 3,400 people have been martyred in Lebanon by Israeli fire — 80% of them in the eight weeks — according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
The ministry said Israeli strikes on villages in southern Lebanon left at least two medics dead on Saturday. 
Israeli raids targeted an emergency response team in the southern town of Kfar Tebnit, killing one medic and injuring four others while two medics are missing.
Another medic was killed in an Israeli attack on the town of Borj Rahal in the Tyre district, south of Lebanon.
Israeli warplanes also carried out heavy airstrikes on the Haret Hreik neighborhood in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
The Israeli military issued a

 forced displacement order shortly before the attack, calling on all the residents of the area to immediately evacuate there.
Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee used a map that marked buildings targeted for attack in red, claiming that these locations are near the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah’s facilities and interests.
“You must evacuate these buildings and neighboring ones immediately, keeping a distance of no less than 500 meters,” he added.
On Friday, the Israeli regime targeted with missiles Beirut’s southern areas of Tayyouneh, Ghobeiry and Bourj al-Barajneh, causing significant destruction to buildings.
Israel launched a ground assault and massive air campaign against Lebanon in late September after a year of exchanging fire across the Lebanese border in parallel with the Gaza war.
In response to the ongoing aggression, the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has been staging hundreds of retaliatory strikes against the occupied Palestinian territories and the Israeli forces trying to advance on southern Lebanese areas.
The movement has vowed to sustain its strikes until the regime ends the escalation.
On Saturday, Hezbollah disrupted the electricity supply of Nahariya. Israel’s Channel 12 a drone strike cut off power. 
The Israeli military, meanwhile, said that a Hezbollah drone crashed on an apartment in the northern town of Nahariya.
Sirens sounded in west Galilee, and nearby areas. Hebrew-language media outlets confirmed a rocket attack launched from Lebanon targeting the Galilee region, in northern occupied territories.
Reports said at least ten rockets were fired toward Galilee. 
Sirens also echoed across multiple northern locations, including Betzet, Rosh HaNikra, Lehman, Gesher HaZiv, Milouot Industrial Zone North, Betzet Beach, and Sa’ar.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq issued a statement claiming responsibility for a drone attack on a “vital target” in Eilat. The movement announced that this was the second such strike.