{"id":20422,"date":"2025-04-22T15:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=20422"},"modified":"2025-04-22T15:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:26:37","slug":"idf-no-sanctuary-for-hamas-operatives-not-even-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/idf-no-sanctuary-for-hamas-operatives-not-even-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF:  No Sanctuary for Hamas Operatives\u2014Not Even in Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM \u2014 In a targeted airstrike earlier today, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminated Hussain Izzat Muhammad Atwi, a senior operative of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Lebanon, an organization closely aligned with Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The precision strike took place in the area of Na\u2019ameh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon. Atwi, identified as a terror engineer, was reportedly involved in orchestrating attacks both along Israel\u2019s northern border and internationally.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_20424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20424\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/atwi-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"431\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/atwi-2.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/atwi-2-300x180.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IDF airstrike in Lebanon | Source: Social media, used under Section 27A of Israel\u2019s Copyright Law<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>Planned Attacks on Multiple Fronts<\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to the IDF, Atwi was a key figure in planning rocket launches from Lebanese territory, coordinating terror infrastructure in the north, and attempting cross-border infiltrations. He was also linked to efforts to target Israeli assets abroad, marking him as a significant transnational threat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Safe Havens<\/strong><br \/>\nIn an official statement, the IDF emphasized that the operation was part of a broader doctrine of preemptive counter-terrorism: \u201cThe IDF will continue to act against Hamas operatives wherever they are\u2014even outside Israel\u2019s borders\u2014in order to dismantle terror infrastructure and disrupt threats before they materialize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background &#038; Implications<\/strong><br \/>\nAtwi\u2019s affiliation with the Islamic Jihad movement in Lebanon, and his operational overlap with Hamas, highlights a growing trend of regional terror collaboration. The strike serves as a strategic message amid rising tensions along Israel\u2019s northern frontier and ongoing warfare in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDF airstrike eliminates senior terror engineer involved in global attack plots against Israeli targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":20423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,6],"tags":[2619,1477,1544,1475,2614,4552,1578],"class_list":["post-20422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idf","category-security","tag-counterterrorism","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel-security","tag-israeli-airstrikes","tag-lebanon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>IDF: No Sanctuary for Hamas Operatives\u2014Not Even in Lebanon - 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