💥 LEBANON: IDF STRIKES HEZBOLLAH TARGETS AND SENIOR COMMANDERS: IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin says Hezbollah will pay a “heavy price” for attacking Israel overnight. “Hezbollah opened fire, it chose to start a campaign. It will pay a heavy price,” he says in a press conference.
Defrin says the IDF struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, including in Beirut. “We struck dozens of command centers and rocket launch sites belonging to the organization. We struck senior commanders, among the last remaining top officials still alive in that organization,” he says, adding that the results of the strikes are under review.
Defrin says additional strikes will be conducted in south Lebanon later, after the IDF issued evacuation warnings in dozens of villages. The IDF states: “We attacked HQs, sites, senior commanders; Hezbollah made a grave mistake and will pay a heavy price for harming the State of Israel.”
Defense Minister Israel Katz says Hezbollah secretary general Naim Qassem is now a target after the group fired rockets and drones at Israel overnight. “The Hezbollah terror organization will pay a heavy price for the firing toward Israel, and Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s secretary general, who decided on the firing under pressure from Iran, from now on he is a marked target for elimination,” Katz says.
Katz adds that whoever “follows the path” of Iran’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed by Israel on Saturday, “will soon find himself together with him in the depths of hell with all those eliminated from the axis of evil.”
🏁 LEBANON: REPORTS OF FLIGHT FROM BORDER AREAS: Hizbullah collaborators and supporters are now fleeing north from the Israel–Lebanon border, fearing retaliation, with heavy traffic congestion reported in Aabbasiyyeh in Lebanon’s South governorate.
✈️ AVIATION: EL AL PREPARES RESCUE FLIGHTS ONCE BEN GURION REOPENS: El Al says it has begun preparations for a rescue operation that will start once Ben Gurion Airport reopens. In the first stage, it is preparing rescue flights from its main destinations in the U.S. (New York, Miami, Los Angeles), the Far East (Bangkok, Phuket), and Europe.
El Al says rescue flights for El Al and Sun d’Or customers whose flights were canceled will be provided at no additional cost. The flights will be opened for public sale only after all El Al and Sun d’Or customers have been brought back.
El Al says it is also examining the possibility of operating flights with KLAS JET aircraft to Taba or Aqaba, subject to receiving the necessary approvals from the country’s security authorities. These flights would operate from nearby European destinations and would also be at no additional cost for El Al and Sun d’Or customers who wish to use them.
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