Israeli forces are continuing to degrade Hezbollah’s capabilities, advancing on the ground in Southern Lebanon while striking strategic sites located in Hezbollah’s stronghold neighborhoods of Beirut.
So far, Israel has destroyed an estimated 60% of Hezbollah’s arsenal, approximately 90,000 rockets and missiles. The terror group remains the best-armed organization in the world and still possesses tens of thousands of missiles, drones and rockets – many with precision guidance systems.
Since the start of Rosh Hashanah, Hezbollah has fired more than 400 rockets at Israeli civilians.
Israeli ground forces have killed more than 400 Hezbollah terrorists since the operation in Lebanon began last week to clear the terror group from villages in the border area. Over the weekend, the IDF destroyed a 270-yard Hezbollah attack tunnel designed to be used in an invasion by the terror group’s elite Radwan forces into Israel. Below is footage from inside the tunnel:
Israeli troops are locating caches of weapons and tunnel shafts throughout southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah deliberately built its terror infrastructure and hid its weapons among civilian homes, hospitals, and mosques.
Israeli air strikes last night set off huge secondary explosions, further exposing that Hezbollah is storing its weapons in densely populated civilian neighborhoods. Watch a video here.
Israel is also working to prevent Iranian weapons from entering Lebanon, striking the smuggling routes from Syria and preventing Iranian planes carrying weapons from landing in Lebanon or Syria.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said that Israel “must continue exerting pressure on Hezbollah and creating additional and lasting damage to the enemy. Without relief and without allowing a respite for the organization.” Read more here.
Join us online tonight: Marking one year since October 7
Our community will come together for an online program this evening at 7 p.m. ET to commemorate the one-year anniversary of October 7 as we share stories of tragedy, heroism, resilience, and hope.
In a video address today, Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivered a message to the people of Israel and Jewish communities around the world. “We are all still living the aftermath of October 7th. It is everywhere in our country,” he said.
“Remembering what we have lost, which reminds us also who we are. We are a people with the power to keep standing up again, again against hatred, to get back on our feet from the ashes of tragedy, to fight and to survive, to heal and to rebuild.” Watch Herzog’s message here:
Israel prepares response to Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel would soon respond to Iran’s unprecedented ballistic missile attack last week. “No country in the world would accept such an attack on its cities and citizens, and Israel won’t either,” said the prime minister. “Israel has the duty and the right to defend itself and respond to these attacks — and it will do so.”
The IDF is preparing for a response that it described as “serious and significant.” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said today that Israel would not be deterred from responding to Iran’s massive ballistic missile attack last week, adding that the bombardment “didn’t even scratch” the air force’s capabilities.
“The Iranians have not even scratched the capabilities of the Air Force. Not a single squadron has been damaged, not a single plane has been damaged, there is not a single runway that is not available for takeoff, and there is no damage to our continuity,” he said.
Nasrallah’s potential successor out of contact since Israeli strike Friday
An Israeli strike on an underground Hezbollah bunker near Beirut over the weekend targeted Hashem Safieddine, the possible successor to Hassan Nasrallah.
According to reports, Safieddine has been out of contact since, and Israeli security officials are increasingly confident that he was killed.
Safieddine, a cousin of Nasrallah and the head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, was designated as a terrorist by the State Department in 2017.
IDF launches new operation in northern Gaza to prevent Hamas from regrouping
Israeli troops are conducting a new ground operation in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya area to prevent Hamas from reorganizing.
The IDF carried out a wave of airstrikes and artillery shelling overnight as ground troops entered the area.
The military said the strikes targeted dozens of Hamas sites in Jabaliya, including weapon depots, tunnels, cells of operatives, and other terror infrastructure. Several dozen terror operatives were killed in airstrikes and tank shelling, according to the IDF.
IDF has seized 70,000 items from Hamas’ arsenal
Since the October 7 massacre, the IDF has seized 70,000 items from Hamas, including 1,250 anti-tank missiles and 4,500 explosives. The IDF is displaying the arsenal of Hamas weapons used in the attack to showcase the scale of the evil perpetrated by the terrorists.
Terrorist opens fire at Beersheva bus station; one killed, 10 injured
A terrorist stormed into a McDonald’s inside the Beersheva bus station this afternoon and opened fire, killing 19-year-old Sgt. Shira Suslik and injuring 10 others.
The terrorist was killed at the scene by IDF soldiers.
The wounded were taken for treatment to the Soroka Medical Center, including a woman in serious condition and four men in moderate condition, all of whom sustained gunshot wounds.
Am Yisrael Chai: Former hostage in Gaza expecting a baby
On October 7, Doron Katz-Asher was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with her young daughters, Raz and Aviv.
They endured 49 days in hell before being released.
On the one-year anniversary of October 7, Doron shared that she and her husband are expecting their third child. Am Yisrael Chai!
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