Israel Pounds Hezbollah: Strikes 1,300+ Targets Killing Hundreds, Destroying Thousands Of Missiles

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) significantly escalated their strikes against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon on Monday, striking well over a thousand targets that present a serious threat to Israel. The strikes against Hezbollah have rapidly increased over the last week as Israeli leaders push to return tens of thousands to their homes ...

Sep 23, 2024 - 15:28
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Israel Pounds Hezbollah: Strikes 1,300+ Targets Killing Hundreds, Destroying Thousands Of Missiles

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) significantly escalated their strikes against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon on Monday, striking well over a thousand targets that present a serious threat to Israel.

The strikes against Hezbollah have rapidly increased over the last week as Israeli leaders push to return tens of thousands to their homes in northern Israel after they were displaced following Hezbollah attacks after Hamas’ October 7 attacks last year.

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the Israeli Air Force has hit more than 1,300 Hezbollah targets so far today and is still launching new strikes that are continuing to target “cruise missiles that can reach hundreds of kilometers, heavy rockets with a 1,000-kilogram warhead, medium-range rockets that reach a range of up to 200 kilometers, short-range rockets, and armed unmanned aerial vehicles.”

More than 350 people, estimated to be mostly terrorists, were killed in the airstrikes on Monday with more than 1,200 sustaining injuries.

Secondary explosions were seen at many of the sites that the IDF targeted, indicating the presence of rockets and missiles that were detonating.

The IDF said in a statement on social media that it was carrying out the strikes because “over a million Israeli civilians are running to bomb shelters in Haifa as Hezbollah indiscriminately fires rockets.”

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that in the last day, the IDF has “crush[ed] what Hezbollah has built over twenty years.”

“[Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan] Nasrallah remains isolated at the top, entire units in the Radwan force have been taken out of action, and tens of thousands of rockets have been destroyed,” he added.

A senior Israeli official told a local news station: “What Hezbollah hasn’t understood through force, it will understand through more force.”

Israel wounded thousands of Hezbollah fighters last week by detonating pagers on Tuesday and detonating walkie talkies on Wednesday that it secretly made and sold to the terrorist group — devices that it laced with explosives. Hundreds of terrorists remain in critical condition and dozens more were killed.

On Friday, the IDF killed the entire senior command of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force in an airstrike in a southern Beirut neighborhood, including Ibrahim Aqil, the Head of Hezbollah’s Operations Unit and the Commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan Forces, who was also in charge of Hezbollah’s “Conquer the Galilee” attack plan.

The IDF followed up the elimination of the Radwan force’s senior command with an intense wave of airstrikes on Saturday, hitting nearly 300 targets “including thousands of launcher barrels, alongside additional terrorist infrastructure in multiple areas in southern Lebanon.”

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