JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said late Monday that air strikes in Lebanon hit more than 1,300 targets of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah in the previous 24 hours.
The strikes hit over 1,300 targets, army spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a press briefing.
An earlier statement from the Israeli army specified that the targets included buildings, vehicles, and infrastructure where rockets, missiles, launchers and unmanned aerial vehicles posed a threat.
In a separate statement Monday, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said that on this day we have taken out of order tens of thousands of rockets and precise munition.
Gallant called Monday a significant peak in the operation.
This is the most difficult week for Hezbollah since its establishment –- the results speak for themselves, he said.
Entire units were taken out of battle as a result of the activities conducted at the beginning of the week in which numerous terrorists were injured, he said.
Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force suffered a fatal blow with the loss of top commanders, including regional and brigade commanders, he said, referring to a strike Friday that killed, among others, the elite force’s head Ibrahim Aqil. — AFP
