Israel Says It Targeted Hezbollah “Strategic Weapons” Facility in Bekaa

The Israeli military said Thursday it carried out airstrikes on a Hezbollah site in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley used for producing and storing what it described as “strategic weapons.”

Military spokesman Avichay Adraee said Israeli forces also struck Hezbollah infrastructure in the southern town of Zrariyeh.

“The presence of such infrastructure, which was targeted, constitutes a violation of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon,” Adraee said, adding that the army “will continue to act to eliminate any threat to Israel.”

The Bekaa facility has been hit by Israeli warplanes several times in the past, according to the army.

Earlier in the day, two Israeli airstrikes targeted the mountains surrounding the town of Janta in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa region. Warplanes also struck the outskirts of Ansar, while an Israeli drone fired on a motorcycle between Ain Baal and Bazourieh, killing Wassim Jbaaii, a native of Aytit who had been living in Hanawiya, local reports said.

At dawn, Israeli forces demolished a building belonging to a school for children with special needs in the Abu Tawil neighborhood on the outskirts of Ayta al-Shaab, in southern Lebanon, residents said.