The IDF’s Golani Brigade announced on Tuesday that it recently advanced all the way to the Litani River, around 10 kilometers from the Israeli border, including using robots for portions of the operations.
Generally, the Golani Brigade’s area of operations is in southern Lebanon parallel to the Israeli northern areas of Metula and Kiryat Shmona.
According to the IDF, the goal was to remove various mortar firing cells and certain tactical tunnels Hezbollah was using to maneuver within portions of southern Lebanon.
The IDF said that over three days of fighting, it had killed around 15 Hezbollah fighters in the operation, which combined with earlier operations versus Hezbollah in the Golani Brigade’s area of operations within southern Lebanon, adding up to around 70 total.
In addition, the IDF said that the Golani Brigade has destroyed around 1,000 items of terror infrastructure, which could mean anything from tunnels to lookout or ambush positions to rocket firing positions to civilian houses where Hezbollah hid weapons.
The Golani Brigade has lost three soldiers (in addition to three more connected to its combined aerial-ground operations) over the last two months of war in Lebanon, adding to around 130 killed throughout the wars since October 7, 2023.
Moreover, senior IDF sources said that the new FPV drone threat, which uses cables and manual controls to circumvent advanced IDF jamming and detection technologies, is expected to remain a regular problematic threat without a clear answer for the foreseeable future.
Senior IDF sources told The Jerusalem Post last week, during an embed visit to southern Lebanon, that it is working with the 91st Division on a pilot to combat the new, advanced FPV drone threat, but a comprehensive solution may take time.