Hagari: IDF will not permit weapons trafficking to Hezbollah from Syria
IDF Spokesperson warns Hezbollah against Syria presence, reveals extensive operations in southern Lebanon and claims destruction of terror infrastructure in Beirut.
Israel will attack any attempt to bring weapons to Hezbollah from Syria, IDF chief spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Thursday.
“We are identifying rockets and other weapons that Hezbollah is launching at Israeli territory that were manufactured in Syria,” R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari told reporters. “We will attack every attempt to bring weapons from Syria to Hezbollah. And we will attack all infrastructure we identify in Syria whose purpose is to produce weapons for Hezbollah.”
The IDF said earlier that it struck military sites and command centers belonging to Palestinian Islamic Jihad – located in Syria. “Alongside Hamas… PIJ directed by its leaders outside the Gaza Strip, participated in the murderous attack on October 7th,” said the military, adding that PIJ has been actively assisting Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Syrian state media reported that 15 people were killed in Israeli strikes on residential buildings in Damascus. A Syrian military source said that the buildings targeted were located in the suburbs of Mazzeh and Qudsaya, both in the west of the Syrian capital, according to SANA.
Hezbollah's Beirut supply
“We have destroyed most of Hezbollah's production sites and weapons warehouses in Beirut,” he announced.
Early Thursday morning, the IDF confirmed that it downed a drone under the Syrian skies that was launched from the east. It was en route to Israel and was shot down before it crossed into Israeli territory. It was also the second such drone to be downed by Israeli defense systems.
Fallen soldiers
The IDF announced on Thursday that Lt. Ivri Dickshtein, 21, from Eli, was killed in southern Lebanon.The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Thursday that two or three unknown people fired approximately 30 shots in the direction of peacekeepers, who fired back and moved to safety. No one was hurt and an investigation was launched, UNIFIL added in a statement.