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.
“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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.”
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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