The weapons production site was located in Tyre, a southern Lebanese city from which Hezbollah operatives have launched missiles towards Israel.
The IDF struck on Monday a Hezbollah weapons production site embedded in a former civilian medical clinic and meters away from a Mosque, the military said.
The site was located in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.
The IDF was able to determine the presence of weapons due to secondary explosions that occurred within the building following the military’s strikes on the facility.
Advance warnings were issued to mitigate harm to civilians, with precise munitions and aerial surveillance also put in place.
“The Hezbollah terrorist organization continues to operate from within and close to civilian and medical infrastructure,” said the IDF, “including religious sites and medical clinics, and cynically exploits them in order to execute terror attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers.”
A graphic depicting the location of a Hezbollah weapons production site near a mosque in Tyre, southern Lebanon. (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON UNIT)
IDF strikes infrastructure, rocket launch sites in Tyre
Additionally, the military struck Hezbollah infrastructure sites located in the city of Tyre last week.
In late March, the IDF issued evacuation orders after identifying Hezbollah operatives launching heavy rocket fire from within the city’s residential neighborhoods.
The IDF’s military Arabic spokesperson, Col. (res.) Avichay Adraee said that the terror group had fired around 120 rockets from Tyre’s outskirts.