The IDF announced that over the past month, the 401st Brigade Combat Team under Division 91 achieved operational control over the village of Hadatha in southern Lebanon, destroying more than 90 terrorist infrastructures, killing over 20 Hezbollah operatives, and seizing more than 150 weapons including RPGs, anti-tank missiles, and assault rifles.
The IDF on Monday provided a detailed breakdown of a month-long operation in the southern Lebanon village of Hadatha, announcing that the 401st Brigade Combat Team, under Division 91, had destroyed over 90 terrorist infrastructure sites, killed more than 20 Hezbollah operatives, and seized over 150 weapons including RPG rockets, anti-tank missiles, and Kalashnikov rifles. The military released the figures in a statement at 11:00 Jerusalem, marking the first time it has specified the scope of the operation’s results after initially reporting only the weapons cache earlier the same day.
As The Zioneer reported in three successive updates Monday morning, the thread began with the IDF confirming that the 401st Brigade had located over 150 weapons in the village. By the second version at 11:00 Jerusalem, the military added that more than 90 infrastructure sites had been dismantled and over 20 operatives killed, with the third version consolidating that data. The published_at timestamps for all three versions are identical (Mon 11:00 Jerusalem), meaning the military issued the data in a single release that The Zioneer parsed in three stages.
The village of Hadatha is located inside the Israel-designated security zone in southern Lebanon, an area where the IDF has been conducting ground operations since late 2023. The 401st Brigade is an armored unit operating under the 91st (Galilee) Division, which has been tasked with clearing and holding territory along the border.
The IDF statement did not specify whether the 401st Brigade remains in the village or has withdrawn following the operation, and the numbers of destroyed sites and killed operatives were not independently verified. The military also provided no breakdown of civilian casualties or collateral damage in Hadatha during the month-long clearing operation.
4 developments
- StrongIDF advances into central Hadatha in southern Lebanon, demolishes suspected Hezbollah infrastructure
- DevelopingLebanese media: IDF captures village of Hadatha in Nabatieh district
- DevelopingIDF says it struck 70+ Hezbollah sites, eliminated seven operatives from underground route
- ConfirmedIDF completes operational control of Wadi al-Saluki, kills over 50 Hezbollah operatives
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