According to the IDF, during ground operations in southern Lebanon over the course of the previous day, the Israeli Air Force struck over 200 targets, killing about 60 Hezbollah operatives.
.The IDF says that in the past day, some 60 Hezbollah operatives were killed and more than 200 targets were struck by the Israeli Air Force, amid ground operations in southern Lebanon.
Overnight, some 15 Hezbollah operatives holed up at the town hall of southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil were killed in an Israeli airstrike, the military says.
According to IDF, fighter jets struck the Bint Jbeil town hall in a joint operation with the 36th Division, after several several Hezbollah operatives were identified there.
The military says that the building was used by Hezbollah to store weapons, and at least 15 terror operatives were killed in the strike.
In another joint operation, an IAF drone struck and killed a cell of Hezbollah operatives who were identified by troops of the 36th Division launching rockets at Israel, the IDF says.
This morning, two Hezbollah operatives opened fire at Golani soldiers in southern Lebanon, and a short while later, artillery forces identified the pair and directed an IAF drone to strike and kill them. No soldiers were hurt in the incident, according to the IDF.
In a separate joint operation with the 98th Division, several Hezbollah operatives who launched missiles at the Ramim Ridge area yesterday were killed in an IAF fighter jet strike, the military reported.
Over the course of the past day, fighter jets have reportedly attacked roughly 200 additional Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, according to the IDF. These targets include buildings that the terror group uses, personnel, weapon depots, infrastructure, and observation posts.
In southern Lebanon, a Fox News reporter embeds with the IDF to display Hezbollah’s position carved into a mountain.
Trey Yingst, a reporter for Fox News, embeds with the IDF in a report detailing how elite forces have recently infiltrated a Hezbollah outpost and entered southern Lebanon.
“It is in tunnels and rooms like this the Israelis say they are finding Iranian weapons that were smuggled first to Syria and then into southern Lebanon,” the Fox reporter says as she enters a tunnel hewn out of the rock close to a Hezbollah position.
He claims the position is less than a mile from the border, noting that troops had to cross minefields and walk through difficult terrain to get there.
He states that the position is less than a mile from the border, pointing out that in order to get there, the troops had to go through challenging terrain and through minefields.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), which declared yesterday that it hopes for the operations to conclude as soon as possible, find it unacceptable that the Lebanese terror group uses any house for military purposes.