Overview
- Intelligence cleared for publication says the cell operated from Lebanese territory and intended to enter Galilee communities to carry out attacks or attempt a kidnapping.
- Security officials say advance warning led to intelligence and operational measures that prevented the infiltration before it began.
- The IDF previously targeted a Hamas training compound in Ain al-Hilweh near Sidon about two weeks earlier.
- Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports 14 people were killed and four wounded in that strike.
- Authorities have not released full operational details, and the military says forces will keep working to detect and thwart infiltration attempts in the north.