Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Hezbollah and Hamas are no longer effective proxies for Iran.
Gallant said Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, was no longer functioning as a military network in Gaza, while Hezbollah’s senior command and most of its missile capabilities had been wiped out.
He said both groups “are no longer an effective tool” to be used by Iran.
Hezbollah said it fired rockets at a military base in northern Israel on Sunday, a day after it declared several areas in the region a “legitimate target” due to the presence of Israeli troops.
The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group said it targeted a “military industries base north of Haifa (a northern city in Israel)... with a large rocket salvo”
Four Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said on Sunday, bringing to 36 the total number of Israeli soldiers killed since the start of the ground offensive in Lebanon on 30 September.
The troops all served with the Alon Brigade’s 8207th battalion.
Mr Gallant: They are still effective enough to kill them
