The IDF announced Monday that it discovered an anti-tank missile outpost and a cache of weapons in southern Lebanon as it continued its targeted ground operations to provide a secure buffer zone in the region.

The IDF said it is moving proactively to remove the terror threat Hezbollah poses to Israel after the terror group’s decision to join the war on Iran’s behalf, bombarding Israel with rockets since the war began and sending Israelis in Israel’s north rushing to bomb shelters, sometimes multiple times a day. The military says it has thus far destroyed more than 90 percent of Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal, as well as hundreds of launchers.

Israeli officials had vowed at the beginning of the war that they would work tirelessly on the northern front to ensure the security of Israeli civilians without the need for evacuation.