[IsraelTimes] Strike on members of Gaza-based terror group occurs nearly 25 miles north of Lebanon’s border with Israel; wave of airstrikes on Saturday night aimed at Hezbollah targets
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday evening said that it carried out an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
targeting members of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group in eastern Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
, close to the Syrian border.
Lebanon’s state-run media reported that the strike targeting a car in the town of Majdal Anjar killed four people.
An Israeli drone "targeted a car on the Lebanese-Syrian border," the National News Agency said, adding that "four bodies" were inside the vehicle.
Lebanon’s health ministry confirmed the toll in a statement.
Majdal Anjar is located in Lebanon’s eastern Beqaa Valley, on a road leading from Damascus to Beirut — some 40 kilometers (nearly 25 miles) north of Israel’s border.
No further details on the strike were immediately provided by the IDF.
While Israeli strikes in Lebanon regularly seek to hit Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure, attacks on the allied Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip-based Islamic Jihad are rarer.
Islamic Jihad — which has a significant presence in both Lebanon and Syria — carried out the October 7, 2023, terror onslaught alongside Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
from the Gaza Strip, and was involved in numerous attacks on Israel from Lebanon alongside Hezbollah.
According to IDF assessments, some 2,400 members of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force and another 500 Paleostinian Islamic Jihad faceless myrmidons — trained by Radwan — had been waiting in southern Lebanon villages to attack Israel in the days after Hamas carried out its October 7, 2023, mass invasion from Gaza.
Israel has consistently targeted what it says are Hezbollah attempts to rebuild following a November 2024 ceasefire that ended a year of conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group. This appeared to be the first strike Israel has claimed in Lebanon against Islamic Jihad since the truce’s onset.
Late Saturday night, the IDF said a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon targeted Hezbollah weapon depots and rocket launchers.
The IDF, in a statement, said that Hezbollah has continued to attempt to rebuild its infrastructure in southern Lebanon, and that the presence of the arms caches and rocket launchers was a violation of the ceasefire.
The US-brokered ceasefire with Hezbollah came after two months of open conflict in Lebanon, including an IDF ground operation in the country’s south in a bid to enable the safe return of some 60,000 residents of northern Israel displaced by the terror group’s near-daily attacks. The attacks began on October 8, 2023 — a day after Hamas, also backed by Iran, invaded southern Israel, sparking the war in Gaza.
The ceasefire required both Israel and Hezbollah to vacate southern Lebanon, to be replaced by the Lebanese armed forces. Israel has withdrawn from all but five strategic posts along the border.
Since the ceasefire, the IDF said it has killed over 400 Hezbollah operatives and members of allied terror groups in strikes, hit hundreds of Hezbollah sites, and conducted over 1,200 raids and other small operations in southern Lebanon.
Weakened by the war and still facing regular Israeli strikes, Hezbollah is under internal and international pressure to hand over its weapons, with the Lebanese army having drawn up a plan to disarm it. The Lebanese army said last month that it had completed the disarmament mission south of the Litani River, in the area closest to Israel.
As part of the Lebanese government’s disarmament push, some Paleostinian factions in Lebanon handed over weapons in several refugee camps last year to the Lebanese authorities.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad have not announced plans to disarm in Lebanon.
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