IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir said that Israel should attack Beirut in response to Hezbollah’s drone attacks on Israeli troops in southern Lebanon during a Security Cabinet meeting on Monday, sources confirmed to The Jerusalem Post.
Zamir arrived at the meeting after visiting Israel’s Northern Command on Sunday, where he conducted a situational assessment and approved operational plans for continued fighting against Hezbollah.
Later, he visited the 401st Brigade and was present at the brigade’s headquarters when Sgt. Nehoray Leizer was killed by an explosive drone.
Smotrich: For every drone, 10 Beirut buildings should fall
“We must put an end to the threat of Hezbollah’s explosive drones,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a Monday statement. “For every explosive drone, ten buildings in Beirut should fall.”
A strategic threat is not answered by defense alone, but by changing the rules and the equation,” he added, pointing out the recent two billion NIS defense budget he had approved to address the ongoing drone threat.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir echoed Smotrich’s sentiment in a Monday post to X/Twitter.
“It is forbidden to normalize the reality of explosive drones; it is time for the prime minister to bang on Trump’s table and inform him that we are returning to war in Lebanon,” Ben-Gvir wrote. “We need to cut off electricity in Lebanon, conquer Dahiyeh, and return to an intense war.”
