{"id":126515,"date":"2025-12-11T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=126515"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:28:32","slug":"11-05-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=126515","title":{"rendered":"Smotrich: IDF \u2018likely\u2019 to step up enforcement in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Smotrich: IDF \u2018likely\u2019 to step up enforcement in Lebanon<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Charles Bybelezer, Amelie Botbol<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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“It is likely that we will soon need to return and operate there to preserve the gains achieved against Hezbollah,” Smotrich told JNS.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a Religious Zionism Party meeting in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, Dec. 8, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg\/Flash90.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Israel Defense Forces will \u201clikely\u201d need to intensify military operations in Southern Lebanon, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told JNS on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are enforcing in Lebanon, without compromise, against any Hezbollah armament and any violation of the ceasefire,\u201d Smotrich stated, speaking at a Knesset meeting of his Religious Zionism Party.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is likely that we will soon need to return and operate there to preserve the gains achieved against Hezbollah,\u201d he continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not allow Hezbollah to remain,\u201d the minister vowed. \u201cResidents of the north deserve to live in complete security in their communities,\u201d with the Israel Defense Forces holding strategic positions beyond the border, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere will no longer be a situation in which towns are the front line and the IDF is behind them. The IDF will be the front protecting the communities, and the communities will be behind it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to strike Hezbollah and defeat it,\u201d continued Smotrich, adding, \u201cWe will not repeat the mistakes of the past 20 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The IDF overnight Monday carried out strikes against Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure across Southern Lebanon, the military said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The targets included a compound used by Hezbollah\u2019s Radwan Force to train operatives for attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers. Trainees there conducted shooting drills and received instruction in the use of various weapons, according to the IDF.<\/span><\/p>\n

Military structures and a launch site used by the Iranian-backed terror group to facilitate attacks on Israeli forces and the state were also hit, the army said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The targets \u201cconstitute a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon and a threat to the State of Israel,\u201d the IDF said, adding that it \u201cwill continue to operate to remove any threat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli forces recently dismantled <\/a>a Hezbollah tunnel in the Houla area of Southern Lebanon, the military said on Sunday. IDF troops had located and neutralized the tunnel during the war, but had now fully dismantled it to prevent any future exploitation.<\/span><\/p>\n

IDF soldiers also recently dismantled a Hezbollah weapons storage facility in Ayta ash-Shab.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam<\/a> told Qatar\u2019s Al Araby Television Network<\/em> on Saturday that Beirut is seeking to disarm all groups in the country\u2019s south, including Hezbollah, by the end of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The terror group had \u201caccepted the ceasefire agreement, which restricts weapons to the hands of state forces,\u201d Salam told the channel. \u201cWe are committed to restricting weapons south of the Litani [River] by the end of the year, and in the remaining areas during the next year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Days earlier, Jerusalem and Beirut dispatched officials to talks <\/a>in Lebanon as \u201ca first attempt to create a basis for economic relations and cooperation,\u201d the Israeli Prime Minister\u2019s Office announced.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Israeli representative, Uri Resnick, senior director for foreign policy at Jerusalem\u2019s National Security Council, met in Naqoura with \u201crelevant Lebanese civilian representatives\u201d as well as Morgan Ortagus, the deputy U.S. special envoy to the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n

The meeting came after the Israel Defense Forces<\/a> warned on Dec. 2 that Hezbollah was rapidly rebuilding its capabilities despite ongoing airstrikes since a truce deal last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ceasefire went into effect on Nov. 27, 2024, after more than a year of war that culminated in an intense two-month IDF campaign that decimated the Iranian proxy\u2019s leadership. The agreement was finalized by the Israeli and Lebanese governments with the involvement of five mediating countries, including the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

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