IDF says troops carried out logistics supply drill to prepare for potential Lebanon ground offensive

Over the past week, the IDF carried out a logistics supply drill as part of its preparations for a potential ground offensive in Lebanon.

In the exercise, forces practiced delivering equipment, water, fuel, and ammunition to simulated “maneuvering forces” in Lebanon amid fighting, the IDF says.

The IDF says the drill included “loading and unloading equipment from Air Force aircraft and transporting equipment using vehicles on the ground” to the front lines.

So far, amid the war in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Air Force has carried out airdrops of some 110 tons of equipment to troops, according to the IDF. Thousands more logistical supply operations were carried out using convoys of trucks.

“The IDF is prepared to carry out identical operations in the northern sector as well, with high intensity and under fire if required,” the military says.

The drill comes amid repeated attacks by Hezbollah and allied Palestinian terror groups in Lebanon on northern Israel, with fears of a wider conflict.

Israel has warned it can no longer tolerate Hezbollah’s presence along its northern border following Hamas’s October 7 atrocities in the south, and has warned that should a diplomatic solution not be reached, it will turn to military action to push Hezbollah northward.