With a two-week ceasefire with Iran coming into effect, the Israeli military is consolidating its gains against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said overnight that the ceasefire suspending the six-week-old U.S.-Israeli war against Iran did not apply to Lebanon, and the Israeli military said it was continuing its operations against Hezbollah there,” Reuters reported.
Despite Iran’s demand to extend the ceasefire to its terror proxy in Lebanon, the IDF is committed to flushing out Hezbollah terrorists and dismantling their infrastructure along its northern border.
Israel wants to position troops in southern Lebanon “up to the Litani River as part of a ‘security zone,’ it says is aimed at protecting its own northern residents,” the news agency noted.
As part of this forward deployment, the IDF took a strategic ridge in southern Lebanon used by Hezbollah to direct fire at Israeli civilians and troops.
“The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had completed deployment of ground troops along a strategic ridge in southern Lebanon from which Hezbollah could fire anti-tank guided missiles directly at Israeli communities,” The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. “The so-called anti-tank line is located several kilometers deep in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah’s anti-tank missiles have an estimated range of around 10 kilometers.”
Israel, on Wednesday, conducted a missive aerial offensive against Hezbollah command structure and terrorist infrastructure inside Lebanon.
The IDF confirmed that it had carried out “largest coordinated strike across Lebanon since the start of Operation Roaring Lion.”
“The targets struck included Hezbollah headquarters, military arrays, and command-and-control centers,” the IDF disclosed.
Update: Iran has threaten to break the ceasefire and resume hostilities against Israel in response to IDF’s ongoing operation against Hezbollah terrorists, regime media sources claim.
“We will continue striking the Hezbollah terror organization and will utilize every operational opportunity. We will not compromise the security of the residents of northern Israel,” the IDF’s chief of saff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir declared following the strike. “We will continue to strike with determination.”
Ahead of the ceasefire, the Israeli Air Force carried out waves of strikes against military and terrorist targets in Iran. The “IDF conducted a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting missile launch sites and launchers of the Iranian terror regime across Iran, in order to significantly degrade and neutralize its launching capabilities.”
“During the strikes, Israeli Air Force fighter jets, acting on IDF intelligence, struck dozens of launch sites – thereby thwarting a broader planned ballistic missile barrage aimed at the State of Israel,” the military revealed.
Overnight (Wednesday), the IDF conducted a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting missile launch sites and launchers of the Iranian terror regime across Iran, in order to significantly degrade and neutralize its launching capabilities.
Despite a ceasefire with Iran, Israel faces Iranian terrorist proxies on multiple fronts. The IDF continued counter-terrorist operations against Hamas in Gaza, eliminating its top bomb maker.
On Monday, “IDF troops struck and eliminated, in the northern Gaza Strip, the terrorist Muhammad Dawad, an expert in engineering and producing explosive devices in the Hamas terrorist organization,” the Israeli military announced.
“During the war, Dawad was responsible for the production of explosive devices and served as a central knowledge authority for the execution of terrorist attacks. The terrorist posed an immediate threat to IDF troops and was eliminated in a targeted strike,” the military added. “Accordingly, the terrorist led and carried out dozens of terrorist attacks against IDF troops.”
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