Military says troops killed gunmen during ground operations; Syria says army posts targeted by artillery shells from Lebanon; UN says close to 700,000 in Lebanon have been displaced
By Emanuel Fabian
Today, 12:15 pm
The Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday that it had completed a wave of airstrikes targeting branches of a Hezbollah-linked financial institution across Lebanon, as it kept up the pressure on the Iran-backed terror group.
The IDF said several Hezbollah operatives were also killed by troops conducting ground operations inside Lebanon.
Hezbollah, for its part, kept up its fire on northern Israel, launching several barrages of dozens of rockets late Monday and early Tuesday morning, triggering sirens in the Galilee. There were no reports of injuries.
The strikes carried out by the Israeli Air Force hit various assets and vaults of Al-Qard al-Hasan, known to be used by Hezbollah as a quasi-bank, the IDF said. The military had warned the previous day that it would be targeting the institution.
In total, the IDF said, some 30 assets of the financial institution had been struck across Lebanon since open combat with Hezbollah resumed last week, after the terror group launched rockets at northern Israel, claiming it was doing so to retaliate for the killing of Iran’s late supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
Founded in 1983, AQAH describes itself as a charitable organization that provides loans to people according to Islamic principles that forbid interest. It has more than 30 branches across Lebanon, mainly in Hezbollah bastions such as Beirut’s southern suburbs, but also in central Beirut and other major cities.
Separately, the IDF said on Tuesday morning that it struck Hezbollah command centers and other infrastructure in the southern Lebanon town of Ansar overnight, after the terror group launched rockets at Israel from within the town.
Portraits of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, are seen in front of a destroyed building that housed a branch of Al-Qard Al-Hassan, a quasi-bank financial institution run by Hezbollah, which was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, March 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
After the rocket fire last night, the IDF issued an evacuation warning for residents of the town ahead of the strikes.
“The Hezbollah terror organization embeds terror infrastructure in civilian areas, thereby endangering the residents of Lebanon. The placement of launchers and firing from civilian areas in Lebanon constitutes a cynical exploitation of Lebanese residents to advance Hezbollah’s terror objectives,” the army said.
IDF finds ‘isolated failure’ allowed 2 Hezbollah rockets to impact without sirens or interception
Israeli rescue and emergency forces at the scene where shrapnel from a missile fired from Lebanon fell outside a kindergarten in Ramle, March 9, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
By Emanuel Fabian
Today, 4:34 pm
The Israeli military says an “isolated failure” resulted in two Hezbollah missiles impacting central Israel yesterday without being intercepted and without warning sirens sounding.
Hezbollah fired several missiles from Lebanon in the attack, claiming to have targeted the IDF Home Front Command headquarters in Ramle, known as Rehavam Base, as well as a “satellite communications station” in the Ela Valley near Beit Shemesh.
One of the missiles struck Ramle, damaging a daycare and lightly wounding 14 people. Another hit an open area in the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council, damaging infrastructure and wounding two others, according to rescue services and police. The other missiles were intercepted by air defenses, the IDF says.
According to the military, attempts to shoot down the two missiles failed, and the impacts occurred without sirens sounding in the relevant areas.
The IDF describes the incident as an “isolated failure,” adding that “this is not a new threat” and the Israeli Air Force “has intercepted similar threats in the past.”
The failure was investigated by both the Israeli Air Force, which is responsible for the interception, and the Home Front Command, which operates the warning system.
“Following the investigation, adjustments were implemented to strengthen interception capabilities against similar threats in the northern arena,” the military says.
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