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IDF attacks Hezbollah as rocket fire continues – Israel News

IDF attacks Hezbollah as rocket fire continues – Israel News

The IDF carried out 200 airstrikes against Hezbollah targets across Lebanon in the last 24 hours while maintaining four divisions, destroying the terror group’s infrastructure in southern Lebanon, they announced on Sunday. However, it was still not possible to significantly reduce rocket fire on the home front.

Over Yom Kippur, Hezbollah fired more than 150 rockets at Israel and sent a million Israelis to safe rooms and bomb shelters.

Hezbollah also managed to use a drone to attack a residential area in Herzliya.

While no one was killed by Hezbollah rockets, three people were injured, and two weeks into the IDF’s invasion of southern Lebanon, there was no sign that additional military pressure alone would dramatically reduce rocket fire.

Also, when The Jerusalem Post When she spoke to senior IDF officials in southern Lebanon on Thursday, they did not describe significant reductions in rocket fire as part of their mission, but rather their mission was almost entirely about improving Hezbollah’s ability to penetrate northern Israel with Radwan ground forces. to prevent.

IDF soldiers from the 91st Division conducted limited ground operations in southern Lebanon on October 10, 2024. (Source: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)

Other IDF sources stated that Hezbollah’s missile arsenal was reduced by approximately 50-70%. However, considering that its pre-war arsenal consisted of about 150,000 missiles, there is no reason why it could not sustain a daily missile barrage of 50 to 200 missiles indefinitely, as it has recently done.

The IDF continues its fight against Hezbollah

In addition, the IDF has attacked many of Hezbollah’s “high-value” targets and has already killed its three-tier commanders, so Sunday’s description of the targets was more like a general list of attack missile cells, anti-tank cells and basic units of Hezbollah fighters.

In Gaza, the IDF attacked 40 Hamas targets in the last 24 hours and killed dozens of terrorists.

Division 162 continued to destroy Hamas weapons, grenades and mines in Jabalia, northern Gaza, where it launched an operation last week – the fourth invasion of the area.

In addition, the IDF said it destroyed the rocket firing cell that fired two rockets at Ashkelon on Yom Kippur.


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The IDF has not confirmed whether it is implementing a plan proposed by Brigade. General Giora Eiland and hundreds of mid-level reserve officers are calling for the evacuation of all Palestinian civilians from the northern Gaza Strip and the complete isolation of Hamas from the area. However, it appears that the IDF has largely implemented this policy in practice.

Although the numbers are still uncertain, it is already possible that a large proportion of the 150,000 to 250,000 Palestinian civilians who were in the northern Gaza Strip last week have already been relocated to the southern or central Gaza Strip.



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