The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday evening said it had attacked Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in Southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh region, in the second such announcement within hours.
An Air Force fighter jet targeted an arms depot “which was used by the organization to advance and carry out terror plots against the State of Israel,” the IDF stated.
Hezbollah “continues its attempts to rehabilitate terrorist infrastructures throughout the State of Lebanon, while endangering Lebanese civilians and using them as human shields,” according to the Israeli military.
Earlier on Thursday, the Jewish state struck Hezbollah targets at multiple locations across Lebanon, the military announced.
Acting upon intelligence provided by its Military Intelligence Directorate, several targets were struck in Southern Lebanon’s Beqaa region, including an active training compound, according to an IDF statement.
The Beqaa compound “was used by Hezbollah to conduct training and preparation of terrorists for planning and carrying out terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel,” including for live-fire drills and “additional training” for the use of various weapons, it added.
A second facility struck in the Beqaa region was identified by the army as infrastructure for producing precision missiles, the statement noted.
Hezbollah infrastructure was also targeted in the Sharbine region in the northern Beqaa Valley.
“The storage of weapons, the presence of terror infrastructure sites, and conduct of military training against the State of Israel by Hezbollah terrorists constitute a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon and pose a threat to the State of Israel,” the IDF said.
“The IDF will continue to operate to eliminate any threat posed to the State of Israel,” it added.
Thursday’s strikes came as Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, reported that Jerusalem believes Beirut has failed to carry out its commitments to disarm the terror organization.
According to the news report, Lebanon was warned by “senior foreign political and security officials” that the conflict between Israel and the Iranian terrorist proxy had reached a “critical and very dangerous” junction.
The Jewish state “will not sit idly by for long in the face of failure,” it said.
On Nov. 26, 2024, Israel and Lebanon signed a ceasefire deal aimed at ending more than a year of cross-border clashes between the IDF and Hezbollah. The Iranian-backed terror group began attacking the Jewish state in support of Hamas in the aftermath of its Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
Since the truce, the IDF has conducted frequent raids to stop Hezbollah from rebuilding terrorist infrastructure across Southern Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem has rejected demands to disarm, warning in July that the terrorist group was “rebuilding, recovering and ready now” to take on the IDF.
On Wednesday, the IDF eliminated a Hezbollah Radwan Force platoon commander in Lebanon’s Ain Qana area, approximately 13 miles from the Israeli border.
Issa Ahmad Karbala “advanced the transfer of weapons in Lebanon and advanced terror attacks against the State of Israel,” the military stated, adding that he had violated the truce understandings with Lebanon.
The Radwan Force is the Hezbollah unit tasked with infiltrating Israeli territory, seizing areas along the northern border and abducting hostages as part of the terror group’s “Conquer the Galilee” plan.
