President Donald Trump has disclosed that the United States struck a dock facility as part of an intensifying pressure campaign against Venezuela, though details about the operation remain limited.

Speaking to reporters Monday in Palm Beach, Florida, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump described targeting a facility where boats allegedly carrying narcotics are loaded.

“There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump said. “They load the boats up with drugs, so we hit all the boats and now we hit the area. It’s the implementation area. There’s where they implement. And that is no longer around.”

The apparent land-based strike represents a significant escalation in the U.S. military campaign that has previously focused on intercepting suspected drug vessels in international waters of the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. The U.S. military announced another maritime strike on Monday in the eastern Pacific, killing two people. According to the Trump administration, these operations have killed at least 107 people in 30 separate strikes since early September.

When pressed for details about the dock facility strike, Trump declined to specify whether the U.S. military or CIA conducted the operation, or to confirm it occurred in Venezuela, saying only: “I know exactly who it was, but I don’t want to say who it was. But you know it was along the shore.”

Trump had first mentioned the strike during an impromptu call to radio host John Catsimatidis on WABC radio Friday, stating: “Two nights ago, we knocked that out. So, we hit them very hard.”

Notably, neither Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth nor U.S. military social media accounts have announced any facility strike, breaking from the established pattern of publicly declaring maritime interdictions. The Pentagon referred questions to the White House, which has not provided additional details. Venezuelan government officials have not responded to requests for comment.

The apparent land strike comes amid Trump’s months-long suggestions that U.S. operations might extend to land targets in South America, particularly Venezuela. In October, Trump confirmed authorizing the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, a significant policy development in the region.

The Biden-Harris administration’s broader campaign against Venezuela has included deploying warships, building up military forces in the region, and seizing two oil tankers while pursuing a third. U.S. officials have framed these actions as necessary measures in what they describe as an “armed conflict” with drug cartels to halt narcotics flowing into the United States.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has consistently maintained that the true objective of U.S. military operations is regime change rather than drug interdiction. This interpretation gained credibility when White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told Vanity Fair that Trump “wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro ‘cries uncle.'”

The escalation marks a significant shift in U.S. policy toward Venezuela, which holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves and has been under various U.S. sanctions since 2015. The country has experienced economic collapse and political instability, with the U.S. recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the legitimate president from 2019 until 2023.

International relations experts note that this more aggressive approach could have wide-ranging implications for regional stability in Latin America and might complicate diplomatic efforts to address Venezuela’s ongoing political crisis and humanitarian situation, where millions have fled the country in recent years.

The Biden-Harris administration has yet to articulate a clear endgame for the military campaign or outline specific conditions under which operations would cease.