His missions involved strafing the German ground transportation system, including railways, roads and fuel depots, with on-board machine guns.
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Laura Ness,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
The targets were not rocket launchers or weapons depots, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), but the nerve centers of the organization — command rooms, intelligence headquarters and offices where Hezbollah commanders planned the next stage of the fight.
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