Smoke and fire rose from the southern Lebanese border village of Rihan on September 19 after it was hit by Israeli strikes.

The Israeli military said it had hit some 30 Hezbollah rocket launchers along with other "infrastructure." Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged on September 19 that his group had suffered an "unprecedented" blow when thousands of operatives' pagers exploded in attacks it blamed on Israel. Israel has not commented on those attacks, but has said it will widen the scope of its war in Gaza to include the Lebanon front.