Brigadier General Daniel Hagari, the IDF Spokesperson, made a statement on Thursday to the foreign media from southern Lebanon regarding the ongoing fighting against Hezbollah. He began his remarks by saying, “We are here in a Lebanese village, a Shiite village in Lebanon. This village is one of the villages close to the Israeli border. I want to show you what a Lebanese house looks like, a house in a Shiite village near our border. Every house is a terrorist shelter, and I wanted you to see firsthand what we found here today.”
“In this house, there is a warehouse, a stockpile of equipment waiting for Hezbollah’s Radwan forces, with vests, helmets, night vision devices, and mines,” Hagari added, noting that the equipment was intended for the planned operation to “conquer the Galilee.” “They were planning a massacre on a scale larger than October 7 against the northern Israeli communities, with this equipment here. Look at the high-level grenades and sniper rifles, which are being used to shoot at our forces and civilians from a distance – everything was ready for the raid,” he said.
In his statement, Hagari also presented RPGs and PK missiles that Hezbollah militants fired at IDF forces that raided the house. “This is a terrorist shelter, this is a Shiite village built by Hezbollah, and every house has equipment ready for a raid against Israel.”
Hagari clarified that the IDF is going house to house, confiscating the equipment and dismantling Hezbollah’s capabilities: “We are now going from house to house, raiding every home, taking all this equipment, and dismantling Hezbollah’s ability to execute its plan. This is what we are doing. This is a focused maneuver in the north, beyond the border, to address the threat that Hezbollah has been building for years.”
“UN Resolution 1701 prohibits these weapons from being here, and we are making sure that this place will be ‘clean,’ so we can tell our citizens across the border, who have suffered for a year from numerous drones, rockets, and missiles – that they can safely and securely return home,” Hagari concluded.
Meanwhile, the IDF Spokesperson recently reported that for the first time since the outbreak of the war, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet head Ronen Bar conducted a joint assessment with the fighting forces in southern Lebanon, together with the Northern Command and the division commander.
