The strikes, which come as Israel waits for Hamas to release hostages amid peace negotiations with that group, were aimed at dismantling sites that the Israel Defense Forces said contained engineering machinery the Iran-backed group was using to rebuild its operation in Lebanon.
At least one person was killed and seven injured in the strikes, according to Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health Emergency Operations Center, including one injured by a "sound bomb" and another injured in an explosion caused by "war remnants."
"STRUCK: Overnight, the IDF struck and dismantled a Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon," the IDF said in a post on X. "The site contained engineering machinery used to reestablish terrorist infrastructure in violation of agreements between Israel and Lebanaon."
Israeli drones struck several targets across southern Lebanon on Saturday morning, according to the National News Agency, the official news service of Lebanon's Ministry of Information.
The attacks targeted commercial and civilian establishments in the Sidon district of Msaileh around dawn, NNA reported, with drones sited at low altitude over Msaileh, villages in the Zahrani coast, and over the town of Kfar Kila.
A fire broke out in Kfar Kila, which is "considered dangerous" because it is close to the border and to an Israeli outpost, but the Lebanese army withdrew from putting the fire out because of Israeli drones overhead, according to NNA.
Lebanese officials said Israel also "dropped two bombs on a bulldozer in Blida" and used a guided missile to target a car near a public school in the Tabbaleh neighborhood in the town of Qalawiyah, killing one person.
The IDF has accused Hezbollah of using Lebanese civilians as human shields, according to the Times of Israel, and contends that the operations in southern Lebanon violate a ceasefire agreed to in November 2024.
Since the ceasefire, brokered by the United States and France to end a 14-month war between Israel and Lebanon, more than 100 Lebanese civilians have been killed in Israeli strikes, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said earlier this month.
According to the United Nations, Israel has continued almost daily strikes on suspected Hezbollah positions inside Lebanon, which have killed at least 300 people, both Hezbollah operatives and civilians.
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