IDF: on Mount Ali Taher: "This network was built over two decades, funded and directed by the Iranian terror regime."

In recent months, our forces have encircled the area and increased pressure on the routes and on the terrorists entrenched within them. All terrorists who were in the infrastructure were eliminated or fled. Although Hezbollah declared it would defend the infrastructure at all costs, it failed and even abandoned its men to die inside. “Alongside the achievements and the completion of the mission, the fighting has exacted a heavy price from us. In the battles to capture and clear the ridge, our fighters fell, the best of our sons, the salt of the earth. We have completed the mission; these achievements are first and foremost theirs. We will continue to defend the northern communities and will act to remove any threat to our civilians and our forces. Just as we operated here, we will continue to operate along all the borders.”