Katz: IDF bombing blocks Hezbollah from rebuilding top precision missile base
Katz said, “Any attempt by the terror organization to rehabilitate, to reconstitute itself, or to threaten [Israel] will be answered with uncompromising power.”
The IDF on Thursday bombed the largest Hezbollah precision missile facility in Lebanon to prevent the Lebanese terror group from rebuilding it, Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed.
The IDF said it attacked sites in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel, as well as the Bekaa Valley, around 100 km. further north.
During the September-November 2024 heightened point of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the air force had previously attacked the same facility.
More recently, IDF intelligence noticed that Hezbollah was trying to rebuild it in order to reconstitute its precision missile apparatus.
Precision missiles are far more dangerous than most missiles Hezbollah or Hamas can fire – both in sometimes avoiding Israeli missile defense and in having a much higher chance of striking an Israeli civilian or national security target.
DEFENSE MINISTER Israel Katz speaks to the media where a missile fired from Iran landed in Holon last month. Israel has swiftly shifted to an offensive posture in the fight against terror, says the writer. (credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Katz said, “Any attempt by the terror organization to rehabilitate, to reconstitute itself, or to threaten [Israel] will be answered with uncompromising power.”
IDF is attacking other Hezbollah sites
In addition, the defense minister said that Israel is simultaneously attacking other potential threatening sites of Hezbollah.
The attacks come as there is unprecedented pressure on Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem to give up Hezbollah’s arms, as well as its status as Lebanon’s largest military force – even greater than the Lebanese army.
Though Hezbollah is weaker than it has been in decades as a result of the war with Israel and ongoing periodic strikes – so far totaling 500 strikes by Israel against it, even after the November 2024 ceasefire – Qassem has stridently resisted disarming.
Earlier this week, outgoing IDF Northern Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Uri Gordin said that the military would continue to strike Hezbollah until it disarms.
