Israel’s Northern Command has destroyed around 60% of Hezbollah’s infrastructure in villages across southern Lebanon,  a senior military officer told Israeli outlet Walla Tuesday.

The officer said the Israeli military was operating without restrictions in southern Lebanon, relying on a combination of airstrikes and ground operations to target Hezbollah positions and militants.

“Wherever we identify an enemy, we strike,” the officer said, adding that Hezbollah was being hit daily with what he described as “painful blows.”

According to the officer, the Israeli military has divided its operations into two main sectors: areas extending up to what it calls the Forward Defense Line, and areas located north of that line.

In the zone up to the Forward Defense Line, Israeli forces are focused on systematically destroying Hezbollah infrastructure and clearing the area of militants. Beyond the line, operations are being carried out in what the officer described as a more targeted manner.

According to the report, troops from the Israeli army’s 769th Brigade, operating under the 91st Division, continue to conduct missions south of the Forward Defense Line in what the Israeli military says is an effort to eliminate threats to Israeli civilians living near the border.

The officer said Israeli forces were using a broad range of weapons systems during operations in southern Lebanon, including shoulder-fired missiles, anti-tank missiles, precision-guided munitions, mortars, fighter jets and drones.

“There is no situation in which I identify an enemy and do not attack,” he said.

Hezbollah’s military activity in the area, the officer said, relies primarily on drones, rockets and mortar fire, with only occasional use of anti-tank missiles.

“They do not want direct confrontation. They do not want close contact,” the officer said.

Israeli military estimates indicate that hundreds of militants from Hezbollah and allied groups remain active in the area between the Forward Defense Line and the Litani River, according to the officer, who said Israeli forces were continuing efforts to locate and strike them.

“Most of their operational activity is expressed through drones and indirect fire,” he said. “There is also occasional anti-tank fire, and those are essentially the three main forms of attack.”

The officer added that within the Israeli-controlled zone south of the Forward Defense Line, approximately 60% of targeted structures spread across nearly 600 square kilometers and 63 villages had already been destroyed.

“Every enemy position or terror infrastructure within the line is destroyed. Not a single one will remain,” the officer said. “We are operating systematically, in an organized and methodical way, against enemy infrastructure.”

He said Israeli forces had documented Hezbollah’s activities extensively, including underground facilities and tunnels uncovered during operations.

“We have documentation of everything we found, including underground infrastructure,” he said. “Any such infrastructure that we locate and identify is destroyed.”

The officer also claimed that many residential homes in southern Lebanon contained weapons, underground facilities, tunnels or materials linked to incitement.

“Almost every second house contains something — weapons, underground infrastructure, tunnels or incitement material,” he said. “We will not allow this reality to return.”