Hezbollah missile kills two, IDF demolishes launchers in Lebanon

The rocket strike on the city of Nahariya in northern Israel killed two men in their 50s on Tuesday.

The men have been named as Ziv Belfer (52) and Shimon Najam (54).

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that the IDF would hit Iranian oil fields should the Islamic Republic launch another ballistic missile attack on Israel.

“Another attack on Israel would simply cripple Iran's economy,” Netanyahu said in an unusual English language message he directed at the Iranian people.

His words, however, were also a sharply worded warning to the Islamic Republic, which is weighing a counterattack against Israel.

The IDF announced on Tuesday that it has now destroyed the vast majority of Hezbollah's weapons manufacturing and storage facilities, which had been hidden under civilian locations in the Dahiyeh neighborhood of the Lebanese capital in Beirut.

In the past, these facilities had been used to manufacture hundreds of rockets and missiles used against the Israeli home front.

IDF intelligence had been tracking these underground facilities for years, and over recent weeks, the Israeli air force escalated its focus on destroying them after a previous focus on killing top commanders and destroying deployed rocket cells.

Footage from the scene in Nahariya: Two people were killed as a result of a direct hit from a Hezbollah missile.

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IDF troops killed several terrorists and captured numerous weapons from warehouses, as well as dismantling terror infrastructure, the military announced on Tuesday.

Troops from the 36th Division participated in ground operations against Hezbollah positions in South Lebanon, which were used to attack Israel.

Two people were killed as a result of a direct hit from a Hezbollah missile in Nahariya, Magen David Adom (MDA) announced on Tuesday.

Both victims were in their 40s, MDA added.

The IDF announced that three missiles were launched in total, and two were intercepted.

This is a developing story.

One drone fell in an open area near Ben Ami just outside of Nahariya after sirens sounded in the western Galilee, according to an IDF report.

No casualties were reported and army engineers arrived to destroy it.

Staff Sergeant Gary Lalhruaikima Zolat was killed in battle while fighting in the northern Gaza Strip along with three other soldiers from the Shimshon Battalion (92).

Zolat was 21 years old from Afula and served in the Kfir Brigade.

"He was a good boy. Loved his family and friends in the army. Loved animals. He wanted to be a warrior,” his father told Ynet. “I spoke to him on Sunday night, and he said he was fine. He said his leg hurt, but he could do whatever he needed with his friends."

A drone crashed near a kindergarten in Nesher, where no alarms sounded, according to Israeli media. 

Though drone intrusion sirens sounded throughout the Nahariya, Acre, and Haifa areas, none sounded in Nesher.

Staff Sergeant Ofir Eliyahu was killed in battle while fighting in the northern Gaza Strip along with three other soldiers from the Shimshon Battalion (92), Kfir Brigade.

Eliyahu was 20 years old from Holon and, like the others, served in the Kfir Brigade.

"Ofir always told me, 'Mom, I enlisted to be a fighter, and I am returning a fighter,” his mother Nadi told Ynet. "Ofir enlisted in August 2022 as a fighter, was wounded in training, was rehabilitated, and then returned to the unit. Even when he injured a ligament in his knee, he went into the medical center every day with a request to return to combat."