Press Briefing by IDF Spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari- September 25, 2024

Good evening,

In the past few minutes, sirens were heard in Eilat following the infiltration of two UAVs. An Israeli Navy vessel intercepted one of them, while the second fell in the Port of Eilat area. Two people were lightly injured at the scene.

Throughout the day, we continued conducting airstrikes across Lebanon. Fighter jets struck hundreds of terrorist targets across Lebanon, degrading Hezbollah's capabilities and infrastructure. So far, over the past three days, we struck more than 2,000 terrorist targets, including the rocket launchers that launched toward Safed, Nahariya, Wadi Ara, and HaAmakim today. In today's strikes, we carried out a wave of strikes on targets belonging to Hezbollah's Intelligence Directorate at 70 different sites, making it more difficult for Hezbollah to produce an intelligence situational assessment.
The strikes that we have carried out in recent days have proven what we have been saying for years—Hezbollah exploits the civilian population and its surroundings in Lebanon for terrorist activities.

In the footage we captured after the strikes, the weapons that were embedded in homes and destroyed after we struck the homes are visible. In the house you see here, in the village of Mayfadoun, in the heart of a civilian area, we struck a rocket launcher that was exposed after the strike. The house and the rocket launcher were destroyed.

Another example is the house in the village of Baraachit, north of Bint Jbeil. The strike revealed a rocket launcher, which was destroyed. These are launchers that Hezbollah had embedded in the homes of Lebanese families, of civilians, preparing to launch rockets from them to distances of tens to hundreds of kilometers, in order to attack Israeli civilians.

We are continuing to strike, we’re not stopping, while simultaneously preparing plans for the next phases. Today, we mobilized two reserve brigades for operational missions in the northern arena, which will allow the continuation of the war.

Hezbollah expanded its range of fire today. This morning, a surface-to-surface missile was fired toward central Israel and was intercepted by a David's Sling interceptor, destroying it at a very high altitude. We targeted the structure and launcher from which the missile was fired. Numerous alerts were triggered, some of them intended to prevent harm from fragments from the interception. We are continuously conducting a situational assessment regarding the home front, and we will update the defensive guidelines only when necessary, with your safety as our top priority. It is important that you continue to act responsibly and follow the Home Front Command's defensive guidelines. They save lives.