The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) reported conducting around 800 strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon during the whole of Monday, increasing the 300 counts published earlier. These strikes have been focused on eliminating Hezbollah’s military infrastructure, which includes rockets, missiles, drones, and launchers located in southern Lebanon and Beqaa, deep inside Lebanese territory, the IDF said. According to the IDF, these actions are intended to neutralize threats to Israeli civilians and significantly weaken Hezbollah’s operational capabilities. Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his government and army are accomplishing what he promised before regarding “changing the security balance, the balance of power in the north” with all the attacks on Lebanese territories that have left at least 274 dead, 1,024 injured.
Hezbollah says it struck Israeli army posts in north
Hezbollah announced on Monday it struck two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military bases in the north of that country. One of those posts was identified as the IDF Artillery Corps facility in the Yoav barracks in northern Israel. Meanwhile, the IDF wrote on Telegram that it detected several rocket launches from Lebanon’s territories with some of them being intercepted and some crashing into an open area. The attacks followed Israel’s strikes on Lebanon’s territory in response to Hezbollah’s attacks on its own, which, in turn, came amid the former country’s conflict with Hamas.