Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his security cabinet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at his office in Jerusalem, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
During a three-hour security discussion among a smaller group yesterday, Netanyahu was presented with options for continued military operations in Gaza by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir.
The cabinet is reportedly expected to approve a full military occupation of the Strip during tomorrow’s meeting, despite Zamir and army officials warning against the move.
IDF says it struck Hamas weapons manufacturing site in Gaza City yesterday
Hamas weapons manufacturing site in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood was struck by the Israeli Air Force yesterday, the IDF says.
To mitigate civilian harm in the strike, the military says it issued an evacuation warning, and used a precision munition, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.
Meanwhile, the IDF says the 215th Artillery Regiment shelled a launching position used by terror operatives to fire mortars at an army encampment in northern Gaza yesterday. No injuries were caused in the mortar attack.
In the area of the Daraj and Tuffah neighbourhoods of Gaza City, troops of the 401st Armored Brigade directed a drone strike on a cell of some 10 operatives and eliminated them, the military says.
Elsewhere in Gaza, the IDF says it demolished Hamas infrastructure and killed additional operatives.
Hezbollah says Beirut’s call for group’s imminent disarmament is a ‘major mistake’
In a statement, Hezbollah dismisses an announcement yesterday from the Lebanese government seeking a plan to disarm the terror group by the end of 2025, calling it a “major mistake” that harms Lebanon’s sovereignty.
The group said in its response that it will treat the decision “as if it does not exist.”
Nonetheless, Hezbollah said it remains open to a national strategic security dialogue, to ending what it called Israeli aggression against Lebanon, and to working on rebuilding and restoring what the “enemy has destroyed.”
Yesterday, the Lebanese government convened to discuss the clause asserting the state’s monopoly on arms, which effectively means the disarmament of Hezbollah, as part of a proposal submitted by the United States. However, at the end of the session, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam announced that the discussion on the matter was postponed until tomorrow.
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