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Hezbollah fired an anti-tank missile at a house in the border community of Metula Monday evening. The empty house was damaged, but there were no casualties. In response, the IDF is carrying out artillery strikes in Lebanese territory.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar held a situational assessment in the Gaza Strip on Monday with the Southern Command chief, the Division 98th commander and the Commando Brigade commander.
"We are deepening our achievements in the northern Gaza Strip, in the south and underground," said Halevi.
"I am pleased to meet here, on the streets of Khan Younis, both coordinators and our fighters working together with you. There is no force that can stand against this combination," Bar added.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Monday evening that Hamas terrorists are surrendering en masse as Israeli forces tighten the screws on the Islamist group’s last strongholds in the Gaza Strip’s Jabaliya and Shijaiyah, including some who took part in the October 7 attacks.
"The hard cores, long prepared to battle us, are nearing collapse. The volume of surrenders reveals the situation. Emerging from bunkers, they admit to lacking weapons and food,” he told a press conference. “Among those surrendering are terrorists involved in the events of October 7."
Earlier, nine rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward the Kiryat Shmona and Manara area. Four of them landed in open areas, and five were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system. Sirens later blared in the border community of Shtula.
The IDF said earlier that Israeli fighter jets struck a Hezbollah military site in response to an attack on Israeli communities in Western Galilee. The army added that several military outposts were attacked throughout the day, and Israeli forces responded with fire at the sources of the attacks.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese state news agency reported that the mayor of the south Lebanese village of Taybeh was killed by an Israeli strike on Monday.
Lebanese Al-Manar journalist Ali Shuaib reported that Mansour was the brother of former parliament member Nazih Mansour. He stated that Mansour was injured by an unexploded Israeli shell that fell near the house he was in.
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Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon throughout Sunday "resembled the battles of the Second Lebanon War" and were "the most significant since the start of the current conflict," London-based newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported.
Meanwhile, Hassan Fadlallah, a senior Hezbollah politician, told Reuters that the Israeli air strikes marked a "new escalation" to which the group was responding with new types of attacks while several civilian sources and news outlets in Lebanon reported seeing Israeli fighter jets in the skies of Beirut.
Sunday’s IDF attacks included a large number of towns and villages along the border, such as Aitaroun, Yaroun, Kounine and Bint Jbeil. Sources in southern Lebanon told Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that the intensity of Sunday’s attacks was "the most intense" since the start of the war.
According to these sources, although the attacks have intensified in recent days, the IDF had primarily used artillery and drones, with less reliance on airstrikes, which were employed for areas deeper within Lebanon.
According to sources, there has been a significant shift: the pace of attacks in the sector was heavier, and Israel primarily relied on aerial strikes, reminiscent of the Second Lebanon War when "residential neighborhoods in southern Lebanon were intensively bombed." This evening, an IDF spokesperson updated that "IDF forces attacked a terrorist squad in Lebanese territory earlier today."
However, the sources noted that the frequency of attacks in the area intensified on Sunday, with air raids reminiscent of those of the Second Lebanon War, where "residential areas in southern Lebanon faced intense bombing." Meanwhile, the IDF reported that Israeli forces struck a terrorist cell in Lebanese territory.
Fadlallah added, "The border area pays in blood for all of Lebanon and stands at the forefront to protect the country and support Gaza."
Hezbollah also expanded its target range, using drones to attack an Israeli post in the western sector of southern Lebanon. The IDF earlier reported that two soldiers were moderately injured and four others lightly injured from shrapnel and smoke inhalation in these attacks, and air defenses downed two drones.
As local authorities on the front line lose patience and fear that Hezbollah won’t be driven away from the border even after the war, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi visited the Lebanese border on Sunday and assured local leaders that "we understand that this must end with a very clear change in the situation."
Syria's army said its air defense shot down Israeli missiles fired at the surroundings of the capital Damascus from the Golan Heights on Sunday evening. Other missiles not intercepted caused some damage, the army said in a statement. The Israeli army declined to comment.
Syrian opposition outlets reported that Israel has carried out two rounds of airstrikes on targets in the rural parts of Damascus. Syrian media outlets reported that the Damascus airport was attacked, as well as targets in the town of Sayyidah Zaynab and in Quneitra.
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Rapture absolutely imminent.
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