IDF Targets Hezbollah Operatives, Netanyahu Instructs Chilling Response In Case Of Truce Violation

The IDF carried out a number of strikes in Lebanon for the first time since the ceasefire. This included a strike on a Hezbollah medium-range rocket facility after identifying activity there. The IDF said it carried an airstrike against two Hezbollah operatives who entered a known rocket launching site in southern Lebanon. The operatives were targeted in a drone strike “to thwart the threat,” the IDF said.Meanwhile, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said if Hezbollah were to violate the truce in Lebanon, there would be an “intensive war.” Netanyahu said he had given the IDF* instructions for how to respond in case of a “massive violation of the agreement.” The Israeli prime minister said any such a response would extend beyond “surgical operations like we’re doing now.” n18oc_world n18oc_crux0:00 INTRODUCTION2:02 IDF CHIEF SAYS WILL ENFORCE LEBANON TRUCE “WITH FIRE”3:46 IDF CARRIES OUT STRIKES, LEBANON CALLS IT TRUCE VIOLATION5:22 IDF CLAIMS TO HAVE HIT 12,500 HEZBOLLAH ‘SITES’5:55 HOUTHIS CALL FOR ESCALATION AMID THE CEASEFIRE