From the Liveblog of
Saturday, October 5, 2024
IDF says it hit Hezbollah command center embedded in mosque at south Lebanon hospital compound
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Overnight, the IDF says it struck Hezbollah operatives at a command center embedded within a mosque in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil, within the Martyr Salah Ghandour Hospital compound.
The IDF says the drone strike was “precise” and based on intelligence.
According to the military, the command room was being used by the Hezbollah operatives “to plan and carry out acts of terror against IDF troops and the State of Israel.”
Before carrying out the strike, the IDF says it sent text messages to the residents and called up officials in the nearby villages, “demanding that all acts of terror carried out at the hospital cease immediately.”
“Since the beginning of the war, and even more so since the beginning of the limited ground activity in southern Lebanon, the IDF has been making great efforts to prevent harming uninvolved civilians and civilian infrastructure, in contrast to the cynical use of the Hezbollah terrorist organization of civilian infrastructure, including essential buildings, for carrying out terrorist acts,” the IDF adds in a statement.
