Visiting Lebanon border, IDF chief says military ‘continuing campaign to strengthen defenses’

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (left) meets with officers on the Lebanon border, April 6, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (left) meets with officers on the Lebanon border, April 6, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir held an assessment on the Lebanon border today, the military says.

“We are continuing the campaign to strengthen the defenses, while showing initiative and offensive action,” Zamir says in remarks published by the IDF.

Zamir met with the chief of the Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, commander of the 91st “Galilee” Regional Division, Brig. Gen. Yuval Gez, and other commanders.

During the assessment, the military says Zamir “emphasized his instructions that the IDF will not allow civilians to go on hikes over the international border, but only in Israeli territory and in places where hikes were held in the past, in accordance with the security situation.”

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