The IAF on Friday evening conducted its fourth round of intelligence-based strikes in the Dahieh area, a key Hezbollah terrorist stronghold in Beirut, said the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
Among the targets struck throughout the day were Hezbollah command centers, weapons storage facilities, and additional terrorist infrastructure sites.
“These strikes are a part of the IDF's ongoing efforts to dismantle and degrade Hezbollah's military capabilities in the Dahieh area, where Hezbollah has systematically embedded its terrorist infrastructure amidst the Lebanese civilian population, cynically exploiting them as a human shield,” the IDF said.
Prior to the strikes, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk to civilians, including the gathering of prior intelligence, using aerial surveillance, and issuing advance warnings to the population in the area.
Earlier, the IAF conducted its third round of intelligence-based strikes on Hezbollah terror targets in the Dahieh suburb of Beirut, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.
In this round as well, numerous steps were taken prior to the strikes to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including gathering prior intelligence, using aerial surveillance, and issuing advance warnings to the population in the area, said the IDF.
Over the past day, the IAF struck and dismantled a stockpile of rockets and 15 launchers in southern Lebanon, some of which were ready to fire missiles and rockets toward Israeli civilians, stated the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
Among them, was the launcher used to fire projectiles toward central Israel on Wednesday.
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