"Israel will not tolerate fire directed at its territory," the statement said.
The IDF is conducting strikes in the Dahiyeh district of Beirut in response to Hezbollah fire toward Israeli territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed on Sunday in a joint statement. "Israel will not tolerate fire directed at its territory," the statement said. The strikes precisely targeted one of Hezbollah's command centers located within Dahiyeh used by the terror organization to "advance terrorist attacks against the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon," the military added.
Ebrahim Rezaei, an Iranian lawmaker and the military advisor of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, said in a post on X/Twitter that the only way towards any sort of agreement with the United States is to "discipline the Zionist regime." "If this rabid dog is not controlled, the signing of the understanding will not dry up, and it will bite our feet," Rezaei wrote. Since early Sunday morning, several drones launched by Hezbollah have crossed into Israeli airspace, prompting sirens to be sounded in northern Israel. In response, several Israeli ministers called on the government to intensify attacks against Hezbollah and Dahiyeh.
'For every drone, Dahiyeh must tremble,' Ben-Gvir says. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Netanyahu to implement his Dahiyeh doctrine with "determination and force and to demolish buildings in Dahiyeh today" in a post to X, adding that the government had "promised security to the residents of the north, and we must fulfill it!"In his own X post, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir echoed the sentiment. "For every drone, a missile. For every violation, fire. For every drone, Dahiyeh must tremble. For every hair on the head of an IDF soldier, a thousand Hezbollah terrorists," Ben-Gvir wrote. "Against terror, we do not contain, we crush!" (Read More)
