[Smoke rising from the southern Lebanese village of Odaisseh near the border with Israel | Photo Credit: AFP via Getty Images] Beside Israel's northern border fence, the bursts of machine-gun fire from inside Lebanon are loud and long, as new Israeli forces push in to take strategic positions near the border. The regular rumble of air strikes echoes over the shattered remains of Shia villages, destroyed during Israel's last ground war there in 2024. A senior military official said on Thursday...