Netanyahu: IDF eliminated 90% of Hezbollah's pre-war 150,000 rockets and missiles

In a late-night statement to the Israeli public, Prime Minister Netanyahu said the IDF had destroyed about 90% of Hezbollah's pre-war 150,000-missile stockpile, shocking the group with pager attacks and killing over 200 operatives in the last two weeks alone. The same statement named Nasrallah and Radwan Force commanders as eliminated, reinforcing an assessment Netanyahu has repeatedly cited over recent weeks.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended his sustained public assessment of the campaign against Hezbollah late Monday night, stating that the IDF had destroyed roughly 90% of Hezbollah's estimated 150,000 pre-war rockets and missiles. The same statement — delivered in Hebrew — cited the pager operations, the killing of Hassan Nasrallah and Radwan Force commanders, and claimed more than 200 Hezbollah operatives had been eliminated over the past two weeks. Netanyahu's framing echoes a claim he has made multiple times since early June, when he first stated Hezbollah retained only about 8% of its original stockpile (a figure that then lacked independent corroboration). This iteration adds a specific recent two-week figure. The number — 200-plus terrorists killed — is an on-record assertion by a single leader and has not yet been corroborated by separate military briefings or independent tallies. The broader 90% depletion figure similarly remains an Israeli leadership claim, though it has appeared in several successive Netanyahu statements and in the trilateral security-zone framework he discussed with the US and Lebanon in late June. No new operational context was provided: the statement is a retrospective summary of achievements rather than a new battlefield announcement.

• Developing21:15 · 15 JunNetanyahu: Hezbollah left with 8% of its pre-war 150,000 rockets and missiles
• Developing20:24 · 19 JunNetanyahu: I ordered the IDF to strike 150 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon
• Strong22:13 · 20 JunNetanyahu: IDF to stay in southern Lebanon as long as needed; 300 Hezbollah targets struck in two days
• Confirmed20:21 · 10 JunNetanyahu addresses Lebanese people: 'Israel is not at war with you, but with Hezbollah'

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