The Israel Defense Forces hit a site in Lebanon used by Iranian-backed Hezbollah to produce “strategic weapons,” it stated on Thursday night.
The Hezbollah terrorist site in the Bekaa region of Southern Lebanon also contained infrastructure and storage facilities for strategic arms, according to the Israeli army’s announcement.
Israel’s armed forces “will continue to act to remove any threat to the State of Israel,” Thursday evening’s military statement concluded.
The situation in Lebanon remains volatile following the end of the truce with Beirut on Feb. 18. The ceasefire, which went into effect on Nov. 27, ended more than a year of war, after Hezbollah began attacks on Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, one day after Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel.
On March 7, the Israeli Air Force carried out multiple intelligence-based airstrikes on Hezbollah terrorist assets in Southern Lebanon. The next day, an IAF craft attacked a Hezbollah terror operative who, according to the IDF, was engaged in prohibited activities in the country’s south.
Meanwhile, the IDF confirmed on Tuesday that a Lebanese individual, shot by its troops after approaching the border area the previous day, had been evacuated for treatment in a hospital in the Jewish state.
According to a Lebanese Armed Forces statement, the wounded individual in question was an LAF soldier wearing civilian clothes.
The Israeli military did not confirm that the individual was a member of the LAF or where the incident occurred, saying only that its soldiers had acted according to “standard operating procedures” during the incident.
Following negotiations held by Israeli representatives with Lebanese, American and French officials in Lebanese territory on Tuesday, the Jewish state freed five Lebanese detained during anti-Hezbollah raids.
They also agreed to “form three joint working groups, the objective of which is to stabilize the area and focus on the following issues: The five points under IDF control in Southern Lebanon, discussions on the Blue Line [de facto border] and points still in dispute, and the issue of Lebanese detainees being held by Israel,” according to Jerusalem.
