IDF targets Hezbollah tunnels, rocket launch sites in Lebanon

Israeli strikes in several areas of southern Lebanon on Monday targeted Hezbollah infrastructure, including rocket launching sites, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Among the targets were training camps used by Hezbollah to plan and carry out attacks against Israel, according to the military.

The IDF said it also struck tunnel shafts used by the terror group to store weapons. The shafts were located at Hezbollah sites where “unusual military activity” by the terror group was identified in recent months, the military said.

In addition, the IDF said it struck rocket-launching sites and buildings used by Hezbollah to advance attacks on Israel.

No injuries were immediately reported from the strikes, which came amid ongoing IDF efforts to prevent Hezbollah from rebuilding its infrastructure and arsenal in the wake of a November 2024 ceasefire.

The IDF action on Monday followed an incident on Sunday night in which IDF troops were dispatched to the Lebanon border in the Western Galilee after the military said a suspect was identified on the Lebanese side of the fence.

“From the moment of identification, IDF troops have been maintaining continuous surveillance of the suspect,” the military said at the time, adding that a tank and a helicopter also opened fire in the area to “remove the threat.”

The IDF then said the incident ended after the suspect who approached the fence in Lebanese territory withdrew from the area.

Troops worked to “remove the threat” and tracked the suspect during the incident, the military said.

The US-brokered ceasefire with Hezbollah came after two months of open conflict in Lebanon, including an IDF ground operation in the country’s south in a bid to enable the safe return of some 60,000 residents of northern Israel displaced by the terror group’s near-daily attacks. The attacks began on October 8, 2023 — a day after fellow Iran-backed terror group Hamas invaded southern Israel, sparking the war in Gaza.

The ceasefire required both Israel and Hezbollah to vacate southern Lebanon, to be replaced by the Lebanese armed forces. Israel has withdrawn from all but five strategic posts along the border.

Since the ceasefire, the IDF said it has killed over 400 Hezbollah operatives and members of allied terror groups in strikes, hit hundreds of Hezbollah sites, and conducted over 1,200 raids and other small operations in southern Lebanon.

Weakened by the war and still facing regular Israeli strikes, Hezbollah is under internal and international pressure to hand over its weapons. The Lebanese army recently said it had completed its mission to disarm the terror group south of the Litani River, in the area closest to the Israeli border. Israel responded that the news was “encouraging” but insufficient.

Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report.