The Israeli military’s mobilization for a possible land incursion into Lebanon was evident in northern Israel on Thursday, a day after Israel’s military chief of staff told soldiers to prepare and called up two reservist brigades.

On the highways in northern Israel, convoys of military jeeps and vehicles headed north on roads with little traffic. Trucks hauled portable saferooms. Vehicles with large beds carried tanks. Elsewhere, military bases and staging grounds are nestled into the north’s hills.

A soldier said of a ground invasion, “We are prepared for it. We don’t know if it’s going to happen, but we are preparing.”