🛡️ HEZBOLLAH INFRASTRUCTURE AND 401ST BRIGADE OPERATIONS: IDF forces operating in the Security Zone in southern Lebanon located and dismantled a Hezbollah booby-trapped structure in the Mrah el Aaqbe area and found RPG rockets and additional weapons.
The IDF’s 401st Armored Brigade has meanwhile completed more than eight months of operations in southern Lebanon and is returning to the southern sector. According to the IDF, the brigade destroyed more than 1,200 Hezbollah terrorist infrastructures, seized over 600 weapons and eliminated more than 60 terrorists.
Operating across mountainous and complex terrain, the brigade seized tactical positions and conducted targeted raids that uncovered weapons stockpiles, combat compounds and numerous underground routes. Forces also seized a military site enabling entry into Rshaf, where tunnels, shafts, anti-tank missiles, weapons caches and other terrorist infrastructure were destroyed.
The brigade said it adapted methods developed during two years of combat in Gaza to Lebanese terrain, including expanded use of advanced robotics to disrupt and destroy enemy infrastructure before manned forces entered. Brigade fighters and commanders were killed and others wounded during the fighting. The brigade is returning south with operational experience and technological capabilities accumulated in both Gaza and Lebanon.
⚠️ IRAN WARNS AGAINST SYRIAN ACTION AGAINST HEZBOLLAH: Iran has reportedly sent messages to Syria through Turkey warning against implementation of a military scenario, reportedly being prepared with U.S. encouragement, under which Syrian forces would intervene against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
According to Lebanese outlet UNews, Tehran informed Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iraq that Syrian intervention against Hezbollah would trigger a broader regional confrontation on Syrian territory. Iran warned that its missile response would include strikes against more than 100 strategic sites in Syria, including the Syrian Presidential Palace.
⚓ U.S. CARRIER ROTATION: The United States is sending the USS George Washington to the Middle East to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed for more than 250 days. According to The Wall Street Journal, the rotation comes amid concerns over conditions aboard the Lincoln, including supply shortages, exhaustion and deteriorating sailor mental health.
🛰️ CENTCOM EXPANDS ATTACK-DRONE OPERATIONS: U.S. Central Command announced efforts to establish Task Force Falcon Strike, described as the first multi-domain, multinational attack-drone task force. The formation is intended to employ one-way attack drones and unmanned systems operating above, on and below the sea with U.S. military personnel and regional partners.
The initiative follows the establishment nine months ago of Task Force Scorpion Strike, the U.S. military’s first dedicated one-way attack-drone squadron in the Middle East. CENTCOM says the squadron has since launched an aerial attack drone from a U.S. Navy warship, employed one-way aerial systems during Operation Epic Fury and used unmanned attack vessels during July strikes on Iranian port facilities.
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