Israel at war: What happened on day 413?

The IDF discovered a number of advanced Hezbollah weapons, including a Kormet anti-tank missile and a UAV, in southern Lebanon following a strike by the IAF, the military announced on Friday afternoon. 

Operating in the recently struck area, the military reported it located and dismantled a Hezbollah terrorist command center, which included combat compounds, anti-tank positions, and weapons storage facilities. 

The concealed weapons storage facilities contained a Kormet anti-tank missile, grenades, firearms and various items of combat equipment.

Four Italian soldiers were lightly injured after two rockets exploded at a UNIFIL peacekeeping force base in southern Lebanon, the Rome government said on Friday, expressing outrage at the incident.

The UN mission known as UNIFIL is stationed in southern Lebanon to monitor hostilities along the demarcation line with Israel -- an area that has seen fierce clashes this month between Israeli troops and Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists.

Since Israel launched a ground campaign across the border against Hezbollah terrorists at the end of September, UNIFIL soldiers have suffered several attacks.

While the ceasefire proposal brokered by the US between Israel and Hezbollah would allow a temporary cessation of hostilities, a more permanent solution could be found within Lebanese politics,  Middle East expert, professor Amatzia Baram told Radio 103FM on Friday. 

While he affirmed that the proposal was "not bad," Baram added, "From a more analytical perspective, the implication is that within a year or two, Hezbollah will return to what it was, and it will be better, more updated, more technological, with leadership that is less experienced, but a leadership that will receive support from Iran." 

In such a case, a more difficult round of conflict would ensue, Baram stated. "We need to understand what this means – we will go to a much harder war in a few years. This is something very difficult to accept," he said.

According to Baram, "It is possible to reach a better solution, even without extending the war by much." For Baram, the solution lies within Lebanon. 

"There are almost a quarter of a million Lebanese Shiite refugees who fled to Syria, where they are not wanted. They fled to Iraq, and they are not wanted in Baghdad. They fled to southern Iraq, which is a Shiite area, and there they are accepted," Baram explained. 

Ten pro-Palestinian NGOs asked a Dutch court on Friday to stop the Netherlands exporting weapons to Israel and trading with Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, citing high civilian casualties in Israel's war in the Gaza Strip.

According to the plaintiffs, the Dutch state, as a signatory to the 1948 Genocide Convention, has a duty to take all reasonable measures at its disposal to prevent genocide.

Lawyer Wout Albers, acting for groups including Palestinian rights organisations Al Haq and Al Mezan and pro-Palestinian Jewish organisation Een Ander Joods Geluid, said the Netherlands had failed to take the measures needed by continuing its exports of weapons parts and military cooperation.

"This has to stop immediately," he said.

An officer from the Nahal Brigade was severely wounded in combat on Friday in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF announced Friday afternoon.

The officer was evacuated to a hospital to receive further medical treatment, and his family has been notified.

Newly appointed Defense Minister Israel Katz appointed Brig.– Gen. Nadav Lotan to be the Ground Forces Commander on Friday.

Lotan will be promoted to the rank of Maj.– Gen., following his appointment. 

Lotan was promoted per the recommendation of IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi.

Halevi also filled a large number of other positions in the IDF during his meeting with Katz. 

Some 300 booby-trapped structures have been detected and demolished by IDF engineering troops in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, the military said on Friday. 

The military added that terrorists had positioned explosives in the structures to form an ambush for the troops. 

The identification and destruction of the structures were part of a larger operation of the troops in the area to dismantle explosive devices. 

IDF: A short while ago, the IAF intercepted a suspicious aerial target that approached Israel from Lebanon. The target was intercepted before crossing into Israeli territory. Sirens were not sounded in accordance with protocol.

An Israel Air Force aircraft killed five terrorists who partook in the massacre in Israel's Gaza border community of Mefalsim on October 7, the military and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced on Friday. 

Among the five were Gahad Mahmud Yahya Kahlot, a Nukhba company commander and Muhammed Riad Ali Okal, a Hamas company commander who led the murder and kidnapping in Mefalsim on October 7. 

Israel Air Force jets allegedly targeted a building in Haret Hreik in Beirut's southern suburbs and several areas in southern Lebanon, the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadeen news outlet claimed on Friday morning. 

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Earlier on Friday, IDF Spokesperson in Arabic, Colonel Avichai Adraee, issued three separate evacuation warnings for resident of southern Lebanese villages and Beirut's southern suburbs in a post on X/Twitter.