IDF strikes Hezbollah and Hamas targets in Lebanon after evacuation warnings
The airstrikes followed a series of targeted operations against Hezbollah terrorists over the past day.
The airstrikes followed a series of targeted operations against Hezbollah terrorists over the past day.
In 2025, the Israel Defense Forces reshaped the region’s security reality while refusing to return to the failures of October 7.
Throughout 2025, the IDF fought terror on its borders, including a direct war with Iran that crippled its ballistic and nuclear capabilities and secured the return of all but one hostage from Gaza.
A year after a covert Shayetet 13 raid deep in northern Lebanon, the IDF has revealed new details showing how the abduction of a Hezbollah-linked ship captain helped expose the group’s secret maritime terror program.
The strike eliminated a Hezbollah terrorist who also served in a Lebanese Army intelligence unit, as well as two additional terrorists.
Over the past week, forces from the IDF’s 91st Division have killed four Hezbollah terrorists operating in southern Lebanon.
The terrorist’s actions constituted a clear violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.
Since early October, the IDF has struck around 40 Hezbollah terrorists across 30 locations in southern Lebanon—targeting those rebuilding terrorist infrastructure after more than 1,900 ceasefire violations—and vows to continue neutralizing every threat to Israel.
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Israeli forces in southern Lebanon demolished an old Hezbollah attack shaft and a weapons depot, uncovering mortar rounds inside and eliminating any chance the terror group could use the sites in future attacks.
Israel hit several Hezbollah weapons depots hidden in civilian areas of southern Lebanon, exposing the group’s human-shield tactics as Israel carried out a precision, pre-warned strike to remove the threat.
Israeli intelligence discovered that Tabatabai was meeting with four aides – but only for a short time.
Outwardly, he was a Hezbollah member, rising in their ranks and gaining access to sensitive operations.
As part of the ongoing enforcement of the ceasefire, more than 370 terrorists affiliated with Hezbollah, Hamas, and other Palestinian factions were neutralized.
The IDF carried out coordinated airstrikes in southern Lebanon, hitting Hezbollah launch sites, a weapons warehouse, and multiple terror infrastructures in response to ongoing violations along the border.
Since the November 2024 ceasefire, IDF forces have carried out roughly 1,200 targeted operations across Lebanon, eliminating more than 370 Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian terrorists.
Encrypted smartphones ensure secure communication across every level of command.
According to Israeli assessments, Tabatabai was inside a safe house in Beirut’s Dahiyeh district when the Air Force hit the building.
The IDF announced it had eliminated Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, in an airstrike near Beirut, who oversaw its operations in Syria, directed its war against Israel, and led efforts to rebuild and rearm the terror organization.
The IDF struck multiple targets in southern Lebanon following evacuation warnings, destroying Hezbollah infrastructure and weapons, as evidenced by the secondary explosions.
