After the disaster in Majdal Zoun: IDF changes tack in the Lebanon sector

Following the disaster in Majdal Zoun and a series of casualties among soldiers, the Northern Command is changing its operational method in Lebanon. The new approach includes more airstrikes and artillery fire on suspicious structures before troops enter, in order to reduce the risk of ambushes and explosive devices.

Following the disaster in Majdal Zoun and a series of casualties among soldiers, the Northern Command is changing its operational method in Lebanon. The new approach includes aggressive removal of threats before ground forces arrive in the area. In recent weeks, the IDF has been conducting targeted strikes on suspicious structures along the yellow line and its vicinity, using artillery shells, "Bar" rockets of the Artillery Corps, and massive activation of the Air Force. The fire centers of Divisions 91 and 36 operate fighter jets to bomb and collapse buildings. The activity focuses on suspicious structures for which there is information that they are booby-trapped. The IDF sends messages to residents of the north about explosions and explains that this is proactive activity. The method has been used for a long time in Gaza and southern Lebanon, but now, in the absence of intense large-scale fighting, the Air Force is more available, and after a chain of disasters, it was decided to significantly increase the remote destruction of buildings.