JERUSALEM/BEIRUT: The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) introduced Thursday afternoon that it launched three missiles in a “targetted assault” on the commander of Hezbollah’s drone unit in Beirut. The IDF didn’t present additional particulars on the strikes in Beirut. Nonetheless, Lebanese TV channel al-Jadeed reported that an Israeli airstrike hit a residential constructing close to al-Qaem mosque in Dahieh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, injuring at the least three civilians.
ELIMINATED: Commander of Hezbollah’s Aerial Command, Muhammad Hussein Srour, in a exact IAF strike in Beirut.
Srour superior and directed quite a few aerial terrorist assaults aimed toward Israeli civilians. In the course of the “Iron Swords” conflict, he executed a number of terrorist assaults… pic.twitter.com/odPb5tCERx
— Israel Protection Forces (@IDF) September 26, 2024
Additionally on Thursday, the IDF mentioned its seventh Armored Brigade has concluded a army drill a number of km away from the Lebanese border, simulating a floor operation in Lebanon. The drill skilled the troops in “maneuvering and fight in thicketed, mountainous terrain,” the IDF mentioned in an announcement, including that the troops “enhanced their operational and logistical readiness for numerous fight eventualities in enemy territory on the northern entrance.”
The drill got here a day after France proposed at a United Nations Safety Council emergency assembly a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon in UN diplomacy with the US “to permit for negotiations.” Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has welcomed the proposal. Nonetheless, Israel denied earlier on Thursday that it had agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah or Lebanese political events.
On Monday and Tuesday, Israel carried out its most intensive assaults on Lebanon since 2006, leading to greater than 550 deaths and over 1,800 accidents throughout the nation. It resumed intensive airstrikes on jap and southern Lebanon on Wednesday night, finishing up about 70 raids on the areas of Baalbek, Hermel, and Western Bekaa in jap Lebanon.
Figures launched by the Israeli army confirmed that it has attacked greater than 2,000 areas in Lebanon since Monday, whereas Lebanese Surroundings Minister Nasser Yassin mentioned Wednesday that Israel’s bombardment had displaced over 150,000 residents over the previous 72 hours. The sharp escalation has raised issues a few potential full-scale battle between Israel and Lebanon, with fears that different regional powers may be sucked in, Xinhua information company reported.
