IDF: Wave of strikes targets Hezbollah operatives, infrastructure across Lebanon

A wave of Israeli airstrikes hit Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure throughout Lebanon on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said, with Lebanese officials reporting two dead.

According to the IDF, one of the strikes targeted a group of Hezbollah operatives at a weapon manufacturing site in southern Lebanon, killing one, whom it named as Jawad Basma.

The military said that it had recently detected activity by Hezbollah operatives at the building, in the southern Lebanese village of Bir el-Sanasel, next to Kherbet Selem, which it said was used by the terror group to manufacture arms.

According to Lebanon’s health ministry, the strike near Kherbet Selem resulted in the death of one person and the injury of five others.

A separate strike on Sunday killed a Hezbollah artillery commander who also worked as a school teacher, the military said.

That strike, in the town of Bazouriye, close to Tyre, killed Muhammad al-Husseini, whom the IDF identified as the chief of Hezbollah’s artillery forces in the village of Arzoun.

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“At the same time as his activity in the Hezbollah terror organization, the terrorist worked as a teacher at a Lebanese school in the village,” the army said.

According to the IDF, Husseini was involved in advancing numerous attacks on Israel during the war, and recently attempted to restore Hezbollah’s rocket capabilities in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon’s health ministry also reported one killed in the strike near Tyre.

In a separate strike in Lebanon’s eastern Beqaa Valley, the IDF said it struck other Hezbollah military infrastructure.

Lebanese media reported that the strike hit the outskirts of the village of Nabi Chit, just south of Baalbek. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

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“The activity of Hezbollah terrorists at these sites constitutes a violation of the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon and pose a threat to the State of Israel,” the IDF added, referring to a November 2024 ceasefire.

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.

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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.