The Israel Defense Forces continued its campaign to degrade Hezbollah in Lebanon on Saturday as it targeted command centers, weapons caches, tunnels and more, and as the military said it believed it had killed some 400 Hezbollah operatives since the start of ground operations on Monday.
The army said on Saturday said it had struck Hezbollah operatives overnight in a command center embedded in a mosque in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil, located within the Martyr Salah Ghandour Hospital compound.
According to the military, the operatives were using the command room “to plan and carry out acts of terror against IDF troops and the State of Israel.”
The IDF said the drone strike was “precise” and based on intelligence.
Before carrying out the strike, the IDF said it sent text messages to residents and called up officials in the nearby villages “demanding that all acts of terror carried out at the hospital cease immediately.”