The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Saturday that it had killed two senior Hamas terrorists operating in Lebanon, including one based in Tripoli, Lebanon's northern city on the Mediterranean coast.
In a joint statement, the IDF and the Israel Security Agency (ISA, Shin Bet, and Shabak) said:
Early today (Saturday), in a joint IDF and ISA operation, the IAF attacked Mohammed Hussein Ali al-Mahmoud, a terrorist who served as Hamas's executive branch in Lebanon and directed terrorist operations in Judea and Samaria. and was excluded.
In recent years, Muhammad has promoted terrorist activities against Israelis both inside and outside Israel. He was also responsible for establishing Hamas' entrenchments in Lebanon, which it used to supply weapons for rocket attacks against Israel and to attempt to manufacture advanced weapons.
Additional IDF and ISA operations carried out on Saturday night in the Tripoli region of Lebanon eliminated terrorist Saeed Ala'a Naif Ali, a senior official in the military wing of Lebanon's Hamas. Mr. Said carried out terrorist attacks targeting Israel and worked to recruit Hamas operatives in Lebanon.
The IDF and ISA carried out these operations as part of an effort to target Hamas wherever it poses a threat to Israeli citizens. These operations will deal a blow to Hamas' ability to carry out terrorist activities against the State of Israel from Lebanese territory.
The attack in Tripoli was reportedly Israel's northernmost attack during the Third Lebanon War.
Additionally, the IDF reported that it had killed 440 Hezbollah terrorists, including 30 commanders, in southern Lebanon in five days of ground attacks.
Israel has lost 12 soldiers since the start of the operation, including two killed in drone strikes carried out by Iraqi Shiite militias on Israeli military bases in the Golan Heights.
The death of Hassan Nasrallah's successor, Hezbollah leader Hashim Safa al-Din, has not yet been confirmed. He was the target of an airstrike on a Hezbollah bunker in Beirut's Dahieh district earlier this week. As the population continued to evacuate, Israel continued to attack Hezbollah targets in Dahiyeh. The IDF also told residents of several villages in the Bekaa Valley, long a haven for Hezbollah, to evacuate.
Elsewhere, Israel confirmed that at least 12 of the 18 people killed in an airstrike in the West Bank city of Turkum this week were terrorists.
The IDF attacked residents of central Gaza's Nuseirat, one of the few areas it has not attacked, for the first time in weeks after several rockets were fired from Gaza into Israeli cities. They were told to evacuate due to such an attack.
update: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video Saturday night telling Israelis that the Israel Defense Forces have begun to change the security situation in northern Israel as promised.
He said that in addition to killing Nasrallah, Israel had begun dismantling Hezbollah's Radwan Army and was planning a much larger attack than the one Hamas carried out nearly a year ago on October 7. said.
Prime Minister Netanyahu added that Israel will counter any attack from its enemies, including an unprecedented ballistic missile attack from Iran, and no country will tolerate it. He said Israel will never forget the soldiers who have died defending their country and people, and stressed the need for all Israeli hostages to return home from Gaza.
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