Hebrew → English transcript

First of all, we are connecting here to the information from the IDF Spokesperson…

I will shortly give a brief overview of our activity in the different sectors,

but first of all I

would like to express sorrow and convey from here my condolences

to the families of the two

civilians who were killed as a result of the fire that hit their home last night.

The entire people of Israel stands with the family in these difficult hours.

The Iranian regime is firing toward population centers in order to harm civilians.

That is the nature of the terrorist regime. It is important for me to say again,

we are acting at all times to protect

you and doing

everything to maintain your security, first and foremost.

Your responsible behavior on the home front is

the best way to protect yourselves against any threat.

It is important that you continue to follow the instructions,

as you have done until now.

In the last twenty- four hours we continued to hunt down and eliminate the senior

officials of the regime,

arch murderers who are responsible for many terrorist attacks.

We eliminated the regime’s minister of intelligence, Esmail Khatib,

one of the regime’s main architects of terror.

Khatib led and promoted terror plans against Israel and around the world,

and was directly involved in the brutal suppression of the

protests against the regime.

In addition, in Lebanon we eliminated Hassan Ali Marwan,

commander of the Imam Hussein Division.

after only three days in which he served in the position.

We foiled his predecessor only a week ago.

This is the division commander the

third to be eliminated since Operation Northern Arrows. Ali Marwan was responsible

for the link between the division and Hezbollah and the Iranian Quds Force.

He was the one who led the fire toward Israel on behalf of the Iranian regime.

These eliminations, together with all the eliminations

we have carried out since the beginning of the operation and throughout it,

are an expression of advanced intelligence capabilities and precise and powerful

execution by the air force’s male and female pilots.

We will continue to hunt down all the senior regime officials.

The sequence of eliminations will not stop.

In Lebanon, we attacked gas stations of a company controlled by Hezbollah,

which serves as an economic infrastructure on the scale of millions of

dollars for the organization’s terrorist activity. In addition, we attacked

crossings over the Litani River.

These crossings were used by Hezbollah terrorists to move from northern Lebanon to

southern Lebanon. These are crossings that Hezbollah used to transfer thousands of

weapons systems,

were used by it in order to carry out

terror plans against IDF forces and Israeli civilians.

We will strike every infrastructure that Hezbollah uses in Lebanon.

Every day we attack dozens of targets, thwart firing cells,

eliminate commanders and strike terror headquarters.

The damage to Hezbollah is growing deeper.

IDF soldiers continue focused ground activity and strengthen the frontline defense

of the northern communities. Citizens of Israel,

we do not take lightly any harm caused by the fire on Israel. Not when

property is damaged and certainly not when there are casualties.

The reality in which regimes

and terror organizations threaten Israel’s security and fire at us,

is exactly the reality that we are working to change.

The targeted killings and the strikes on all the arrays and parts of the regime

together produce an achievement that allows us to weaken the regime.

He is already shaken, and we keep weakening him. That is exactly our purpose.

And we are achieving it step by step, according to an orderly plan.

All IDF soldiers and commanders on active duty,

as well as tens of thousands of

reserve service members who were called up for this campaign,

will not stop until we have completed the goals we set and removed the threats

from over Israel.

I will be here and will continue to update you on every development.