The aim of strikes on Lebanese bank Al Qard al Hassan was to stop large amounts of money reaching Hezbollah, Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer says.

Speaking at a press conference, Mencer has said that: “Overnight dozens of command centres and sites in which Hezbollah’s funds were held were hit.”

He continues by saying that the “IDF shared details of the 50 million dollars (£38.4m) in cash which come every month from Iran, via Syria, into Lebanon”.

Mencer then adds that “Israel will not accept the existence of a terrorist military array on our northern borders intent [on] harming our citizens, which might initiate another October 7th massacre”.