Lebanon - October 16, 2024

IDF Operations Against Infrastructure and Operatives in Gaza and Lebanon Continue.

Overnight, the Givati Combat Team joined the 162nd Division in expanded operational activity in the Jabaliya area. Over the past day, ground troops and the IAF eliminated in close-quarters encounters and aerial strikes, and dismantled infrastructure in the area.
In central Gaza, a military structure from which were operating over the past day.

Over the past day, the IAF struck approximately 150 targets in Gaza and Lebanon. Those targets included weapons storage facilities, underground shafts, sniper posts, observation posts and terrorist operatives.

In Lebanon, IDF troops guided the IAF in a strike on the terrorist Muhammad Hassin Ramal, Hezbollah’s commander of the Tayibe area. He directed many attacks against the State of Israel and IDF soldiers in the field.

IDF troops conducting targeted raids in southern Lebanon are continuing to locate and dismantle weapons and loaded launchers aimed at Israeli communities along the northern border. Weapons located by the IDF include sniper rifles, combat equipment and a Burkan-2 rocket launcher. In one operation, a cell preparing to fire an anti-tank missile at soldiers from inside a military structure was struck by the IAF.