Israel on Sunday carried out major airstrikes against seven Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, using more than 30 munitions in two waves of strikes, the military said.

The strikes came after the IDF issued several evacuation warnings in the south Lebanon towns, saying the strikes were “in response to Hezbollah’s continuous violations of the ceasefire understandings.”

Under the current ceasefire, which was reached in November 2024 after over a year of daily Hezbollah rocket attacks and after a month of full-scale conflict, the Iran-backed group was to withdraw its forces north of the Litani River and have its military infrastructure dismantled in the evacuated areas.

The group has refused to surrender its weapons, however, and Israel has continued to carry out strikes on Hezbollah targets over the past year.

The first wave of strikes on Sunday took place in the early afternoon, targeting facilities that the army said were being used to store weapons.

Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) reported “a series of violent Israeli strikes” on Jezzine, Mahmudiyeh and Al-Dimasqiyeh, as well as “more than 10 strikes” on Al-Bureij, all in southern Lebanon.

Later in the evening, the IDF struck an underground weapons storage facility in the Kfar Beit area, near Kfar Hatta in southern Lebanon — shortly after issuing an evacuation warning for the town.

Lebanese state media reported that “enemy warplanes launched more than 10 raids on the threatened location” in the town of Kafr Hatta, which lies north of the Litani, noting “significant........

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