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Watch: “Dramatic Drop” In U.S. Weapons Deliveries

Latest updates: Top Hamas terrorist eliminated • “dramatic drop” in U.S. weapons deliveries • IDF soldier was seriously wounded by a Hezbollah explosive drone • Full Story, Watch

Israel said it had killed a top Hamas terrorist in Lebanon on Shabbos.

Meanwhile, in meetings with Israeli officials in recent days, senior US officials said that the U.S. would fully support Israel in case of a full-blown war.

The military said it struck a vehicle near the town of Khiara in Lebanon’s West Beqaa District, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the two countries’ border.

The IDF published footage from the attack, saying it had targeted Ayman Ghatma. He was responsible for supplying weapons to Hamas in Lebanon as well as to the al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya terror group.

The army said the drone strike was carried out over Ghatma’s involvement in advancing attacks against Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet today that there had been a “dramatic drop” in U.S. weapons deliveries for Israel’s war effort in Gaza, doubling down on a claim that the Biden administration has denied.

An explosive-laden drone launched from Lebanon struck the northern community of Beit Hillel this morning.

The IDF says an interceptor missile was launched at the drone, although it failed to intercept the device.

There are no injuries in the incident.

Meanwhile, fighter jets struck a building and an observation post used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon’s Kafr Kila last night, the IDF says.

A separate strike targeted a group of Hezbollah operatives in Taybeh.

Israeli Air Force fighter jets and drones struck dozens of targets across the Gaza Strip over the past day.

Sites struck by Israeli aircraft in Gaza over the past day included infrastructure and buildings used by terror groups, as well as cells of gunmen.

The strikes come as troops continue to operate in southern Gaza’s Rafah and the Netzarim Corridor in the Strip’s center.

In Rafah, the IDF says troops killed several cells of gunmen and located weapons and tunnel shafts. In the Netzarim Corridor, several more gunmen were killed, according to the military.

Footage shows an apparent interception over the Misgav area in the Lower Galilee, after sirens sounded.

The area houses a major factory belonging to the Rafael defense contractor.

According to media reports, a drone was shot down over the area.

The device had entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon, but the IDF says that drone infiltration sirens did not sound “according to protocol.”

It was shot down by air defenses in an area that houses a major factory belonging to the Rafael defense contractor.

Rocket sirens had sounded in several towns near Sakhnin, some 25 kilometers from the Lebanon border, over fears of falling shrapnel following the interception.

An IDF soldier was seriously wounded by a Hezbollah explosive drone impact near the northern community of Ayelet HaShahar earlier today.

The soldier was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Hezbollah claimed to have attacked an army base with several explosive-laden drones. The IDF reported intercepting one of them.

The IDF says it has raided and demolished a Hamas training complex in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

The so-called Abu Said outpost, belonging to Hamas’s Tel Sultan Battalion, was captured by the 401st Armored Brigade.

The IDF says that at the Hamas base, troops located the office of the commander of the Tel Sultan Battalion, Mahmoud Hamdan, as well as a weapons depot and several tunnel shafts.

The tunnels are being investigated and demolished, the army says.

Also in the outpost, the IDF says troops raided the office of Yasser Natat, a Hamas commander responsible for the Rafah Brigade’s rocket fire on Israel and troops in Gaza.

The 401st Brigade raided a separate training site in the area, where weapons, additional tunnels, and intelligence materials were found, the military adds.

Israeli fighter jets struck a building used by Hezbollah and one of the terror group’s observation posts in southern Lebanon’s Khiam in the last few hours, the military says.

Earlier today, the IDF says fighter jets struck another building used by Hezbollah in Ramyeh.