[IsraelTimes] Lebanese media says bridge linking two towns struck after IDF said it would hit it to block Hezbollah reinforcements; military says airstrikes targeted Hezbollah sites in Beirut
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on Friday, Lebanese official media reported, after Israel’s military warned it would hit two bridges in the area to prevent the transfer of reinforcements to Hezbollah.
Israel’s military warned it would hit two bridges in Sohmor and Mashghara to prevent the transfer of reinforcements to Hezbollah, publishing a map identifying two bridges within around 100 meters of each other.
"Israeli warplanes targeted the bridge that links Sohmor with Mashghara, leading to its destruction," Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says.
Israel has previously struck five other bridges over the Litani in the country’s south, including most of the main routes crossing the waterway.
Additionally, the IDF announced that it had begun a wave of strikes against "terror infrastructure" in Beirut on Friday night. No further details were immediately given.
The IDF has struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs in the past month, and the military has repeatedly called on Lebanese civilians to evacuate the area, including earlier on Friday.
Elsewhere, Israeli troops captured a cache of Hezbollah first-person view (FPV) drones during operations in southern Lebanon.
The military said troops of the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Battalion raided a Hezbollah site where they located numerous weapons, including explosive-laden drones, a sniper rifle, RPGs, and other equipment.
Hezbollah operatives have been increasingly using FPV drones in attacks on Israeli troops carrying out a ground offensive against the terror group in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli Air Force also bombed a Hezbollah rocket launcher in Lebanon used in a barrage on northern Israel on Friday evening, the military said.
According to the IDF, the launcher was struck minutes after the attack.
Additionally, three Hezbollah operatives who were planning to launch rockets at Israel from southern Lebanon were killed in a strike on Thursday, the IDF said.
According to the military, troops of the elite Multi-Domain unit identified a primed rocket launcher during their operations in southern Lebanon.
The launcher was struck and destroyed, and "three snuffies operating near the launcher were eliminated in a strike," the IDF said.
Israeli officials have said the IDF is establishing a demilitarized "security zone" in southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, until the threat of Hezbollah is removed.
The buffer zone would be controlled with surveillance and firepower, as well as ground troops in areas deemed strategically necessary, the military has said.
Defense Minister Israel Katz has said he instructed the IDF to raze all buildings in the so-called "first line" of Lebanese villages close to the Israeli border, to ensure Hezbollah cannot use them to stage attacks on Israel.
Ten IDF soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon amid fighting against Hezbollah, two non-combatants were killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.
In Lebanon, the Israeli military has said that it has killed some 1,000 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, since hostilities escalated amid the war with Iran.
More than 3,500 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have also been struck, including hundreds of command centers, weapon depots, and rocket and missile launchers, according to the IDF.
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