The US supports plans by Israel to conduct “limited operations to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure,” a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council told Al Arabiya English on Monday.

Israeli forces began what the US referred to as “limited ground operations” inside Lebanon, the State Department said Monday, stopping short of calling it an invasion.

Meanwhile, the US military said it would be deploying a “few thousand” more troops to the Middle East as the Israeli army began carrying out ground operations inside Lebanon.