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| Hezbollah round-up: Hezbollah warned to behave, Syrian army’s Hezbully liaison airstruck, H. bunkers cleared from Mt. Dov |
| 2024-12-04 |
| Katz warns Lebanon that if ceasefire fails Israel won’t limit strikes to Hezbollah [IsraelTimes] Defense Minister Israel Katz, in a warning to the Lebanese government, says that if the ceasefire with Hezbollah collapses, “there will no longer be an exemption for the state of Lebanon,” and Israel will not see a separation between the terror group and the country. “We will work with all our might to enforce all the understandings of the ceasefire agreement, and we show maximum response and zero tolerance,” Katz says during a visit to the northern border. “Yesterday was the first test, [Hezbollah] shooting at Mount Dov. We reacted strongly and this is exactly what we will do, and we will not allow Hezbollah to return to the old methods they had, such as the tent that was set up [by Hezbollah on the border several years ago] and not attacked,” he says. Katz says that Lebanon must “authorize the Lebanese army to enforce their part, to keep Hezbollah away beyond the Litani [River] and to dismantle all the infrastructure.” “If they don’t do it and this whole agreement collapses then the reality will be very clear. First of all, if we return to war we will act strongly, we will go deeper, and the most important thing they need to know, that there will be no longer be an exemption for the state of Lebanon,” he continues. “If until now we have distinguished between the state of Lebanon and Hezbollah, and between Beirut as a whole and [its southern suburb, a Hezbollah stronghold] Dahiyeh, which we have struck very hard, this will no longer be [the case],” Katz warns. IDF confirms it killed Hezbollah’s liaison with Syrian army in Damascus strike [IsraelTimes] The IDF takes responsibility for an airstrike near Damascus earlier today that killed Hezbollah’s liaison with the Syrian army, Salman Jumaa. According to the military, Jumaa was a “key” figure in the relationship between the Syrian Army and Hezbollah, enabling weapons to be transferred to the terror group in Lebanon via Syria. “The Syrian regime supports Hezbollah and allows the organization to exploit it for the transfer of weapons to Lebanon,” the IDF says. The military says that Jumaa, as part of his role as Hezbollah’s liaison with the Syrian Army, “assisted in the transfer of weapons from the Syrians to Hezbollah,” including during the recent conflict. Jumaa was also “in close contact” with senior Syrian government officials, the IDF says. A veteran Hezbollah operative, the military says Jumaa held various positions in the terror group including in Syria. He previously was the head of Hezbollah’s intelligence in the Khiam area of southern Lebanon, and later head of operations in Damascus. In recent years he was appointed as the liaison with the Syrian army. The IDF adds that “his elimination is a blow” to Hezbollah’s entrenchment in Syria and the terror group’s ability to rearm. Syria’s state news agency SANA said the IDF drone strike hit a car on a road leading to Damascus International Airport. IDF destroys Hezbollah bunkers, clearing ‘all threats’ in Mount Dov border area [IsraelTimes] Hezbollah bunkers on the Lebanese side of the Mount Dov border area were recently demolished by combat engineers, the IDF says, in an operation that “neutralized all the threats” in the area. The military says troops of the 810th “Mountains” Regional Brigade, alongside combat engineers and the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion, carried out a raid in the Mount Dov area in recent weeks, “as part of the defensive effort to destroy tunnels of the Hezbollah terror organization in the enemy’s staging grounds.” The soldiers found and explored several underground sites belonging to Hezbollah, and seized weapons and equipment in them. The IDF says that this past week, combat engineers “demolished all of the findings and underground infrastructures, and neutralized all the threats in this area.” Related: Mount Dov: 2024-12-03 IDF launches wave of strikes in Lebanon after Hezbollah mortar attack Mount Dov: 2024-11-25 IDF's Alpine Brigade Discovers Iranian Weapons in Mountains Above Israel Mount Dov: 2024-11-24 20 killed in Israeli strike on central Beirut said to target top Hezbollah commander |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-12-04 22:09 |
| #1 Ah, read the headline and wondered who "Mr. Dov" was. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2024-12-04 08:31 |