IDF Strikes Hezbollah Infrastructure Across South Lebanon

Friday, 23 May 2025 | The Israel Defense Forces [IDF] carried out a series of airstrikes targeting Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon, the military said in a statement on Thursday night. 

Israeli Air Force [IAF] fighter jets struck a military site in the Beqaa region of southern Lebanon that housed rocket launchers and other weapons. The site was being used by Hezbollah terror operatives, the IDF said. 

In separate strikes, the IAF targeted additional terror infrastructure, including rocket and missile launchers, across southern Lebanon. 

One of the Lebanese villages where the IDF struck Hezbollah was Toul. Ahead of the airstrikes, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, head of the Arab Media Branch in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, issued an evacuation warning. 

“You are located near facilities belonging to the Hezbollah terror group,” the army spokesman wrote. “For your safety and the safety of your family members, you must evacuate these buildings immediately and move at least 500 meters [1,640 feet] away, as seen on the map.” 

“The presence of arms in the area and the activity of Hezbollah terrorists at the site constitute blatant violations of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the IDF stated, referring to the November 26 truce deal. 

“The IDF will continue to act to remove any threat to the State of Israel and will prevent any attempt by the Hezbollah terrorist organization to entrench itself near the border,” the IDF statement added. 

Earlier in the day, an Israeli aircraft eliminated a member of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in the Rab al-Talatin area of southern Lebanon, which is right across Israel’s northern border, the IDF announced. 

The Radwan Force is Hezbollah’s elite unit, aimed at infiltrating Israeli territory and capturing areas near the northern border. The village of Rab al-Talatin is located less than a mile from Israel’s security fence. 

On Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces eliminated a senior Hezbollah weapons engineer in an airstrike in the Tyre area of southern Lebanon. Hussein Nazih Barji served as a senior figure in Hezbollah’s weapons-production unit, operating within the Iranian-backed terror group’s Research, Development and Production Directorate, it stated. 

On Tuesday, the IDF confirmed the elimination of another senior Hezbollah leader in the village of Mansouri, also in the Tyre area.

 The operative had been responsible for planning attacks, reestablishing the Mansouri complex and facilitating weapons transfers. Video footage published by the military showed the strike targeting a moving vehicle. 

The day before, a member of the Radwan force was eliminated in Houla, and over the weekend, another commander was killed near Mazraat Jemjim.

 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has repeatedly warned that the November 26 deal with Beirut would be void if Hezbollah refuses to withdraw from Southern Lebanon in accordance with the terms of the agreement. 

The situation in Lebanon’s south remains volatile following the end of the ceasefire with Beirut on February 18. The agreement ended more than a year of war, after Hezbollah began attacks on the Jewish state one day after the Hamas-led terror attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. 

Although Jerusalem has withdrawn most of its ground forces since the war ended, it still controls five strategic positions in southern Lebanon. Israeli officials have stated that the IDF will retain control of these areas until the Lebanese army demonstrates it can maintain security there.