The Israel Defense Forces on Friday struck a Hezbollah weapons storage facility in the area of Deir Kifa in Southern Lebanon’s Tyre District, the military said.
The IDF described the facility’s presence as a “violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
Earlier in the day, Israeli forces killed a Hezbollah terrorist involved in efforts to rebuild infrastructure sites in the area of Ayta ash Shab, just over the border in Southern Lebanon, according to the military.
On Thursday, the IDF killed a member of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan commando force who was operating in the Deir Seryan area of southeastern Lebanon. The strike came a day after the military targeted weapons depots, a rocket launcher and other assets belonging to the Iranian-backed group in Lebanon.
On Aug. 13, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said that there had been a “profound shift” in Israel’s national security concept in the aftermath of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
During a tour of Southern Lebanon, where the IDF has maintained a limited deployment since a ceasefire deal in November 2024 ended a year of fighting, Zamir said that Israel’s policy was “no longer containment and waiting, but the use of force in pursuit of contact.”
Israel’s counter-terrorism operations come as Beirut continues efforts to remove weapons from non-state actors, primarily Hezbollah. The process was prompted by U.S. demands for the Lebanese government to disarm the Iranian terrorist proxy.
Hezbollah began launching missiles and drones into Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, the day after Hamas’s invasion of the country’s south.
The Lebanese terrorist group was severely weakened during the subsequent war with Israel, with its leadership and arsenal suffering significant losses.
