Israel's military chief, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, visited the Beaufort Ridge in southern Lebanon on Sunday, according to the Israeli military. The battlefield tour comes amid ongoing Israeli strikes and the stalemate in the ceasefire with Hezbollah.
Sunday's itinerary of IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir at the Beaufort Ridge continues to evolve in real-time: as of Sunday afternoon, the military's top commander visited the strategic ridge in southern Lebanon in a rare open public appearance, the Israeli military reported. This marks the latest in a sequence of reported visits throughout the day, each adding new detail to the profile of the operation.
The Zioneer's thread of the day began at 14:59 Jerusalem with Zamir stating that Hezbollah now relies on Iran to save it and calling on the Lebanese army to clear the area; subsequent versions at the same published_at time documented him touring and then detailing a decades-long, Iranian-funded underground tunnel network beneath the ridge, warning the Lebanese army that the IDF is prepared to launch a rapid offensive if the ceasefire is violated, and stating that Israeli forces control both the surface and the tunnels. The source quality across the thread has been consistent—all reports attributed to military sources or i24NEWS—with no corroboration from additional independent outlets yet.
As The Zioneer reported earlier in the context of this day's events, the Beaufort Ridge holds symbolic and tactical significance: it was the site of a major Israeli raid in 1982 and later a Hezbollah stronghold before the IDF recaptured it during the recent ground operation. Sunday's sighting of Zamir on the ridge—made public by the military itself—underscores the IDF's continued public assessment of the ceasefire's status and Hezbollah's activities in the area.
It remains unclear from the reports whether the Sunday afternoon appearance was a single extended visit or multiple separate appearances. No video or photographic evidence from this specific appearance has been released, though the military's prior coverage of the day's earlier tours was similarly text-only.
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