Israel says it hit Hezbollah sites in eastern Lebanon

The strikes targeted Hezbollah command centers in the Baalbek area, part of eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, the Israeli military said. They are among the deadliest reported in the region in recent weeks. Middle East
Israel says it hit Hezbollah sites in eastern Lebanon

The strikes targeted Hezbollah command centers in the Baalbek area, part of eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, the Israeli military said. They are among the deadliest reported in the region in recent weeks.

A damaged excavator sits on the rubble of a building that was hit in January by an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Qannarit, on February 16, 2026
Israel has launched regular strikes on Lebanon despite a US-brokered truce, saying it is targeting militants from Hezbollah and sometimes Hamas
At least 10 people were killed and 24 wounded in Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley on Friday, Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported.

Israel’s military said in a statement that it had hit Hezbollah command centers.

The strikes are among the deadliest reported in the region in recent weeks.

A senior Hezbollah official was among the dead, sources told Reuters news agency.

Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Shiite political party and militant group in Lebanon. It is designated as a terrorist organization by the US, Germany and several Sunni Arab countries, while the EU lists its armed wing as a terrorist group.
Hamas targeted in southern Lebanon
Separately, the Israeli military on Friday said it had also struck what it said was a Hamas command center from which militants operated in the ​Ain al-Hilweh area ⁠in southern Lebanon.
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The strikes targeted Hezbollah command centers in the Baalbek area, part of eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, the Israeli military said. They are among the deadliest reported in the region in recent weeks.

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A damaged excavator sits on the rubble of a building that was hit in January by an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Qannarit, on February 16, 2026
Israel has launched regular strikes on Lebanon despite a US-brokered truce, saying it is targeting militants from Hezbollah and sometimes HamasImage: Joseph Eid/AFP
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At least 10 people were killed and 24 wounded in Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley on Friday, Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported.

Israel’s military said in a statement that it had hit Hezbollah command centers.

The strikes are among the deadliest reported in the region in recent weeks.

A senior Hezbollah official was among the dead, sources told Reuters news agency.

Hezbollah is an Iran-backed Shiite political party and militant group in Lebanon. It is designated as a terrorist organization by the US, Germany and several Sunni Arab countries, while the EU lists its armed wing as a terrorist group.

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Hamas targeted in southern Lebanon
Separately, the Israeli military on Friday said it had also struck what it said was a Hamas command center from which militants operated in the ​Ain al-Hilweh area ⁠in southern Lebanon.

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Ain al-Hilweh is a crowded Palestinian refugee camp.

Hamas ⁠condemned the Israeli strike on Ain al-Hilweh.

The militant, Islamist group acknowledged that two of its members had been killed in the strike.

However, it rejected Israel’s claim of targeting a command center, slamming it as a “flimsy pretext.”

The building targeted belonged to a joint security force tasked with maintaining security in the camp, Hamas said.

The Israeli military said it “is operating against the entrenchment” of the Palestinian militant group in Lebanon and will “continue to act decisively against Hamas terrorists wherever they operate.”

Hamas is classified as a terror organization by the US, Germany and several other countries.