💢Two suspected Hezbollah drones struck an Israeli military zone in northern Israel near the Lebanese border early Sunday, the IDF said, with no injuries reported. Sirens warning of a “hostile aircraft infiltration” had sounded across several communities in the Western Galilee.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded by calling for the “Dahiya doctrine”, Israel’s strategy of using overwhelming, disproportionate force against civilian areas to deter attacks, named for the Beirut suburb it flattened in 2006. “I call on him to implement it with determination and force and to demolish buildings in Dahiya today as well,” Smotrich wrote, addressing Prime Minister Netanyahu. “We are in critical days of shaping the space for many years to come.”
Israel last struck Dahiyeh on June 7, killing two, and Iran has warned that any attack on Beirut would trigger an Iranian response and could reignite full-scale war across the region. Tehran has made an end to Israel’s war on Lebanon part of its ongoing negotiations with Washington, meaning a strike on Dahiyeh would likely complicate Trump’s push to finalize a MOU with Iran as early as Sunday.