Lebanon - October 09, 2024

IDF: A Weapons Storage Facility Approximately 7 Meters Deep in a Residential Building In a Village in Southern Lebanon Was Dismantled

The Paratroopers Brigade continues limited, localized, targeted raids based on precise intelligence in southern Lebanon. The troops are eliminating terrorists in close-quarters combat and locating underground terrorist infrastructure in homes that Hezbollah has converted into combat compounds in Lebanese villages.

In one of the close-quarters battles of the Paratroopers Brigade, soldiers opened fire on a terrorist cell that was hiding in a building. During the exchange of fire, a squad commander from the Paratroopers Brigade, Captain Ben Zion Falach, fell in combat. The soldiers identified the terrorists using a drone and directed an IAF aircraft to eliminate them. Another terrorist was eliminated in an encounter inside the building.

The soldiers located hundreds of weapons, including an underground weapons storage facility approximately 7 meters under a home within the village where the troops are operating. Within the weapons storage facility, the troops discovered sniper rifles and numerous weapons.