JERUSALEM: Israel’s military said Friday that it had struck more than 80 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and killed dozens of its members in response to what it described as ceasefire violations.
“Overnight, the IDF (military) struck more than 80 command centers, terrorists, launch positions, and additional terrorist infrastructure sites in the area of Nabatieh and additional areas in southern Lebanon, within the Security Zone and beyond it,” an army statement said.
“Furthermore, during the strikes, dozens of Hezbollah terrorists operating in the command centers were eliminated.”
Fighting flared in Lebanon on Friday, with authorities reporting 18 killed in Israeli airstrikes across the south.
The violence is the worst since the sealing of a US-Iran deal to halt the wider Middle East war, which was supposed to also pause the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
