The Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday night that it had struck infrastructure belonging to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist army in Lebanon.
“A short while ago, the IDF struck military sites belonging to Hezbollah, containing rocket and missile launchers, along with weapons storage facilities north of the Litani River in Lebanon,” the IDF stated.
“The presence of weapons and Hezbollah’s activity constitutes a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” and the IDF “will continue to operate in order to remove any threat posed to the State of Israel,” the statement added.
According to Israel’s Ynet news outlet, Monday’s attacks targeted Hezbollah structures in the Nabatieh region of Southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah is expected to remain on the sidelines of Iran’s war with the Jewish state for now, a terrorist spokesman told Newsweek on Sunday.
The terrorist said “the issue remains subject to developments,” leaving open the possibility of Hezbollah’s later involvement, while stressing that the Islamic Republic “certainly has its own military capabilities.”
On Nov. 27, 2024, Israel and Lebanon signed a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending more than a year of cross-border clashes between Israel and Hezbollah. The terrorist organization began attacking the Jewish state in support of Hamas following the terror group’s attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Since the truce, Israel has carried out frequent operations aimed at preventing Hezbollah from reestablishing its “military” capabilities in Southern Lebanon, which would violate the ceasefire agreement.
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem declared on Thursday his group’s support for Iran in the wake of the blows it was dealt by Jerusalem in recent days.
Hezbollah has a duty “to stand by Iran and provide it with all forms of support that contribute to putting an end to this tyranny and oppression,” Qassem said in a statement posted on Telegram.
Also on Thursday, U.S. Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack, visiting Beirut, met with Hezbollah ally and parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who warned him not to get involved in the Israeli-Iranian conflict.
“I can say on behalf of President Trump that would be a very, very, very bad decision,” Barrack told Berri, according to media reports.
