After U.S. media recently reported that Israeli forces had begun conducting operations within Lebanese territory, the IDF on Tuesday not only confirmed the operations were happening but also stated they had been taking place since the start of the war.
IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Daniel Hagari revealed that the Israeli military has conducted dozens of raids to destroy some 700 Hezbollah targets located close to the Lebanese border, which had been prepared to facilitate a massive invasion into the Israeli Galilee in the case of a war.
Several days after Hamas invaded Israel last Oct. 7, former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was still deliberating whether to order his elite Radwan Forces to carry out its plan to capture large parts of northern Israel, for which it had trained and prepared for many years.
According to Army Radio, 2,400 Radwan fighters and another 500 Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists trained by Hezbollah were stationed at the Israeli border, awaiting the order to invade. […]
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