The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday said it hit Hezbollah sites in the terror group’s strongholds in south and east Lebanon overnight following evacuation warnings.

The military issued further warnings Saturday afternoon for 10 southern Lebanese villages on both banks of the Litani River, pending more strikes on Hezbollah.

Meanwhile, Lebanese media reported at least five people were killed in separate Israeli strikes in the southern region of Tyre later Saturday. Several Syrian workers were also wounded in another strike on an agricultural area in south Lebanon on Saturday, state media said. The IDF did not immediately comment on the daytime strikes.

Separately, Lebanon’s Hamas-aligned terror group Jamaa Islamiya (Islamic Group) and its armed wing, al-Fajr Forces, said in a statement Saturday that one of its members was killed in an IDF strike in east Lebanon.

According to the military, the overnight strikes targeted an underground Hezbollah weapons production site in Lebanon’s northeaster Beqaa region, as well as other infrastructure of the Iran-backed terror group near Tyre.

To mitigate harm to civilians, evacuation warnings were issued in advance and precise munitions and surveillance were used in the strikes, the IDF said.

Earlier Saturday, after a lull of some 14 hours, sirens warning of a suspected drone attack from Lebanon sounded in northern Israel’s Kiryat Shmona Saturday morning. The IDF said shortly afterward that a suspect “aerial target” fell in Israel, close to the Lebanese border.

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