IDF says jets hit Hezbollah rocket launchers in south Lebanon after Lebanese army failed to deal with them

The IDF confirms that fighter jets carried out an airstrike in southern Lebanon a short while ago, saying it targeted medium-range rocket launchers at a Hezbollah position.

Another rocket launcher next to the Hezbollah site in the Iqlim al-Tuffah area, in the Nabatieh District, was also struck, the military adds.

The IDF says that as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, Israeli authorities sent a request to the Lebanese army to neutralize the launchers “that posed a threat to the Israeli home front” and troops.

“The launchers were struck only after the request was not handled by the Lebanese army,” the IDF says.

The IDF is still deployed to southern Lebanon under the ceasefire agreement, and it has until late January to withdraw, in accordance with the deployment of the Lebanese Armed Forces to the area.

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