Israel Resumes Airstrikes on Hezbollah Targets in Southern Beirut Terror Stronghold
“We are dismantling Hezbollah’s infrastructure, this is how it should be done—there is no other way,” IDF dy. chief of staff, Maj Gen. Baram, says.
After almost a week of lull, Israeli fighter jets again hit Hezbollah terror infrastructure in Beirut. The target of Tuesday’s airstrike was an underground weapons depot in Dahieh, Hezbollah’s main stronghold south of the Lebanese capital, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed.
“A short while ago, with the direction of precise IDF intelligence, the IAF [Israeli Air Force] conducted a strike on strategic weapons belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization. These weapons were stockpiled by Hezbollah in an underground storage facility in the area of Dahieh, a key Hezbollah terrorist stronghold in Beirut,” the Israeli military said Wednesday morning.
After a pause of a few days, the IDF attacked this morning in Da'Haye, Beirut pic.twitter.com/NOvs9vu1zU
— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) October 16, 2024
“We are dismantling Hezbollah’s infrastructure, this is how it should be done—there is no other way,” the IDF deputy chief of the general staff, Maj Gen. Amir Baram said ahead of the strike.
Avichay Adraee, the IDF's spokesman in Arabic, urged residents to evacuate ahead of a precision strike on weapons hidden beneath civilian areas in Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold.
The IDF's message, auto-translated below, shows Hezbollah placed its weapons right next to a school. pic.twitter.com/rlVXxhTizn
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 16, 2024
The IDF took steps to “mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including advancing warnings to the population in the area” during the strike, the military assured.
Israeli Navy hits Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon
As part of the ongoing Israeli operation ‘Northern Arrows’ in Southern Lebanon, the country’s navy destroyed an array of Hezbollah terror targets. Israeli warships and patrol vessels, backed by ground troops, targeted Hezbollah’s territorial terrorist assets, the IDF disclosed Wednesday.
“Since the beginning of the 146th Division’s limited, localized, targeted raids based on precise intelligence in southern Lebanon, Israeli Navy forces have struck dozens of Hezbollah terror targets in cooperation with the troops on the ground,” the IDF said. “The vessels struck rocket launchers, military structures, and weapon storage facilities of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, which supported the ground troops’ combat.”
WATCH: Hezbollah terrorists fire at IDF soldiers and seek shelter in a nearby house, which is then pulverized by an airstrike pic.twitter.com/CjFQqzS0rI
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) October 16, 2024
The IDF is using the force of combined arms to destroy Hezbollah terrorist buildup along Israel’s northern border. “Over the last few months, we have operated side by side in the air, at sea, and on land. We will continue to operate and strike with force as needed to safely return the residents of the north to their homes,” Commanding Officer of the Haifa Naval Region, Rear Admiral Eli Soholitzky, said in a statement released Wednesday.
⭕️Operational recap from limited, localized and targeted operations in southern Lebanon. Over the past day, IDF troops have:
– Eliminated dozens of Hezbollah terrorists, both from the ground and the air.
– Located 2 storage facilities in a civilian area containing large amounts… pic.twitter.com/kjCuqqIOZI
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 16, 2024
Southern Lebanon: IDF destroyed Hezbollah tunnel network built to invade Israel
The military on Wednesday destroyed a Hezbollah tunnel network built for the invasion of northern Israel, the IDF revealed Wednesday.
“Over the past few days, the troops located and conducted targeted raids on a large network of underground infrastructure and tunnel shafts that included living quarters, and armories, and found a large quantity of weaponry,” the military said.
The tunnel network was to be deployed by Hezbollah to stage an October 7-style invasion of northern Israel. “This infrastructure was intended to aid Radwan forces as part of Hezbollah’s “Conquer the Galilee” plan,” the IDF added. “The tunnel network was embedded in the heart of a town, beneath the homes of Lebanese civilians that were used by Hezbollah terrorists, who cynically exploited civilian infrastructure in southern Lebanon. This morning (Wednesday), the tunnel network was dismantled by IDF troops.”
Hezbollah member fired an RPG towards the IDF, minutes later was eliminated. Watch pic.twitter.com/U7wPtNEycm
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 16, 2024
The IDF eliminates Hezbollah commander in Southern Lebanon
Another Hezbollah terror commander in Southern Lebanon was taken out in an Israeli airstrike. “With the direction of the IDF Northern Command, the IAF struck and eliminated the terrorist Jalal Mustafa Hariri, who served as the Hezbollah Commander of the Qana area in southern Lebanon,” the military said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. “As part of his role, Hariri was responsible for the planning and execution of a large number of terror attacks against the State of Israel from the Qana area.”
“Their elimination serves an additional blow to the Hezbollah terrorist organization,” the IDF assured.
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Good for them. And UNIFIL better just keep out of the way. They are an impediment to the IDF eliminating Hezbollah.
I would suggest that’s UNIFIL’s purpose, to protect Hezbollah, which stands the UN’s res. 1701 on its head. Of course the UN is upside down at this point as well, and should be abolished.
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the best way to dismantle hamas and hezzies etc is to stop the
continued 9 11 takeover of america and the left who prop up iran
maga
If Lebanon wants to be a real country again they need to throw off the shackles of Iran and eradicate Hezbollah