Halevi say IDF will enforce Lebanon truce ‘with fire’ to ensure northern residents can return home

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi says that the military will enforce the ceasefire with Hezbollah “with fire” to enable the return of the displaced residents of the north to their homes.

“This agreement is the result of months of fighting and in particular the last three months. A lot of achievements in Lebanon, intense work, very determined work, the killing of the entire senior echelon, the killing of all the commanders,” Halevi says during an assessment.

“It is now moving to another stage, with the same determination… and we know exactly that Hezbollah came to this agreement from a place of lack of choice and weakness,” he continues.

“Exactly with these strengths, we are also going to do the enforcement, no less than that. We will enforce it with fire, enforce it very, very strongly,” Halevi says.

He adds that “the residents in the north are looking now and want to see us very determined on enforcement so that they can return, and this is our duty to them, and our duty to ourselves.”