IDF confirms Lebanon airstrikes, targets included Lebanon-Syria arms smuggling tunnel

Israeli fighter jets carried out several airstrikes in Lebanon a short while ago, the IDF confirms, including a tunnel between Lebanon and Syria that the military says was used by Hezbollah to smuggle arms.

The IDF says the tunnel, in the Beqaa Valley, was struck in the past. “The IDF is determined to prevent restoration and use of this tunnel,” it says in a statement.

Additionally, the military says it targeted several Hezbollah sites which included weapons and rocket launchers that “posed an immediate threat” to Israel.

According to the IDF, the targeted sites were “a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”

Lebanese media reported a series of strikes in the Nabatieh area, some 20 (12.4 miles) kilometers from the border with Israel, and in the Baalbek area in the Beqaa Valley, nearly 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Israel.