Israel's military has been instructed to halt fire while dozens of Hezbollah operatives remain trapped, according to i24NEWS. The directive comes hours after Hezbollah publicly rejected the ceasefire and the IDF accused the group of further violations. No details on how the trapped operatives became surrounded were available.
i24NEWS reported Saturday evening that the IDF has been ordered to cease fire while dozens of Hezbollah operatives remain trapped. The directive follows a thread of reporting by The Zioneer dating back to Saturday at 19:28 Jerusalem, when the IDF first confirmed operational control of the Ali Taher underground compound. Over the course of that hour, The Zioneer published seven updates: from the initial report that dozens of operatives were trapped inside an Iranian-built nerve center, to the identification of the trapped operatives as members of Hezbollah's Badr Unit, to the location being specified as the Tibnit area, and finally to an Israeli military source saying the operatives are signaling distress and that a recent uptick in rocket fire is linked to efforts to relieve them. Saturday evening's i24NEWS report now adds a political-level directive to hold fire while the operatives remain trapped — a development foreshadowed in earlier thread versions, which noted a directive to 'hold fire' in the Ali Taher ridge area.
8 developments
- ConfirmedSenior Israeli official warns: If Hezbollah attacks again, Israel will strike with full force
- ConfirmedIDF reportedly ordered to halt strikes in Iran, continue operations in southern Lebanon
- DevelopingHezbollah says it rejects ceasefire, refuses to end hostilities with Israel
- StrongIDF spokesman: Hezbollah violated the ceasefire
Source and signal
- Internal intake