IDF strikes Hamas, Hezbollah targets deep in eastern and southern Lebanon |
Israel launched a series of airstrikes deep inside eastern and southern Lebanon on Monday, which the Israel Defense Forces said targeted buildings used by Hamas and Hezbollah.
The strikes came after the IDF issued public evacuation warnings to residents of four villages in southern Lebanon, instructing civilians to leave buildings near sites it said were being used by the two terror groups.
It was the first such warning issued by the military this year.
In two separate posts on X, the military’s Arabic-language spokesman, Colonel Avichay Adraee, said the military would hit Hezbollah sites in Kfar Hatta and Ain al-Tinah, and Hamas sites in Annan and Al-Manara.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) said the home targeted in Al-Manara belonged to Sharhabil Sayed, a Hamas leader in Lebanon who was killed by Israel in 2024.
An AFP photographer in Kfar Hatta, in south Lebanon, saw dozens of families flee the village after the warning was issued amid drone activity in the area, adding that ambulances and fire trucks were on standby.
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