IDF says dozens of enemy fighters killed, 280 targets hit in Lebanon and Gaza over Yom Kippur

In a statement released after Yom Kippur ends, the military says Israeli forces killed dozens of enemy combatants in Gaza and Hezbollah over the holiday weekend.

The Israel Defense Forces reports that it carried out a total of some 280 strikes on terror targets, including over 200 in Lebanon, where it says soldiers killed 50 Hezbollah fighters in “face-to-face confrontations” over the past day.

As part of the operations in Lebanon, which also included raids on numerous Hezbollah sites, the IDF says that it struck “underground infrastructure” where the Iran-backed organization was storing arms along the border with Syria.

In the Gaza Strip, the military says that troops have been continuing to battle Hamas fighters in Jabaliya, where the IDF recently launched a renewed ground offensive to prevent the Palestinian terror group from reestablishing itself in the north of the enclave.

The IDF statement says the military killed over 20 combatants in Jabaliya and a number of fighters in central Gaza and the southern Strip’s Rafah.