Two soldiers were moderately maimed in a Hezbollah missile attack on an Israeli military position in southern Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...on Friday afternoon, the Israel Defense Forces announced Saturday, as the IDF said it had struck 600 targets of the Lebanese terror group in recent days.
Hezbollah began firing missiles at Israel on Monday, days after the US and Israel launched strikes on the Iranian regime, the group’s sponsor.
In response, Israel launched an offensive aimed at pushing Hezbollah away from the border and eliminating its threat, and has expanded its presence in southern Lebanon.
On Saturday, Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets and drones from Lebanon at northern Israel, with no reports of injuries.
Several large barrages of rockets were launched toward Haifa and Kiryat Shmona in the evening. The IDF said it struck and destroyed a Hezbollah rocket launcher shortly after it was used to fire a barrage at northern Israel’s Galilee region.
Earlier in the day, rocket sirens sounded in Safed, Tiberias, and Kiryat Shmona amid attacks from Lebanon. Sirens also sounded across the Galilee and the Golan Heights. There were no reports of injuries in any of the attacks.
One Hezbollah drone crashed in the parking lot of the Galilee Medical Center in the northern city of Nahariya in the morning. The drone appeared largely intact after crashing, and no injuries were reported.
At the same time, a civil defense squad for a nearby community shot down another Hezbollah drone with their firearms, police said. The device was found to have cameras and "kaboom," police added.
Another Hezbollah drone got caught in a tree in the border city of Kiryat Shmona, before being safely neutralized by sappers, police said.
In the Friday attack on troops, several anti-tank guided missiles were fired on soldiers, according to the IDF. Hezbollah took responsibility for the attack, which targeted the same army post the terror group had hit a day earlier in a strike that injured three troops, including one seriously.
The military said that minutes later, the Hezbollah cell that carried out the attack was targeted in a strike.
The two soldiers who were maimed serve in the Givati Brigade. They were taken to a hospital and their families were notified, the army said.
In all, 13 IDF soldiers have been maimed in attacks by Hezbollah since Monday.
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s on Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh district, a Hezbollah stronghold.
The military also reiterated an evacuation warning it had issued on Thursday for the district’s four major neighborhoods.
Israel continued to warn Lebanese civilians to evacuate amid its campaign against Hezbollah. Lebanon’s social affairs minister said on Saturday that 454,000 people had been registered as displaced since the outbreak of fighting.
Earlier this week, Israel warned residents of Beirut’s densely populated southern suburbs and hundreds of square kilometres of southern Lebanon to evacuate.
"Urgent warning to residents of the southern suburb of Beirut, especially those who have not yet evacuated. We reiterate and emphasize: save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately," army front man Col. Avichay Adraee said Saturday.
"The terror activity carried out by Hezbollah in the suburb compels the IDF to act against it with force. We do not intend to harm you. For your safety and security, you must evacuate immediately," he said.
The military has conducted dozens of strikes against Hezbollah targets in the area, including destroying several multi-story buildings.
The army also repeated its warning, first issued on Wednesday, to Lebanese civilians in all of southern Lebanon to evacuate amid the fighting against Hezbollah.
The army issued a separate evacuation warning on Saturday for several buildings in the coastal Lebanese city of Tyre, following which Lebanese media reported an Israeli airstrike in the area.
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Hezbollah taunted Israel with its own evacuation warnings for Nahariya and Kiryat Shmona.
Israel has said it is not evacuating any northern towns, after doing so in the prior conflict with Hezbollah in 2023-2024.
Speaking after a situation assessment with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and other senior defense officials, Katz said Israel would not allow attacks on its troops or communities from Lebanese territory.
In a statement criticizing Lebanon for doing too little to disarm Hezbollah, he addressed Lebanese President Joseph Aoun directly.
"You committed... to uphold the agreement and disarm Hezbollah, and that is not happening," Katz said. "Act and take action before we do even more."
Katz said Israel has no territorial demands from Lebanon but would not accept a return to years of cross-border attacks.
"If [Hassan] Nasrallah destroyed Lebanon, then Naim Qassem
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will destroy it as well along this path," he warned.
Israel regularly struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon following the 2024 agreement, accusing the terror group of ceasefire violations, and continued to hold on to five border posts inside Lebanon, citing security needs. It has now expanded beyond those points.
The Lebanese government, which has claimed it is worked to disarm Hezbollah, has slammed the organization’s renewed attacks on Israel, accusing the terror group of dragging Lebanon into a regional war.
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