The Israel Defense Forces carried out a wave of airstrikes in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley area on Monday, targeting what it said were sites used by Hezbollah for rocket launches and the production and storage of strategic weapons, bringing the number of Hezbollah operatives killed in the past 24 hours up to three.
The military confirmed that it had carried out the strikes following reports in Lebanese media of a wave of Israeli air attacks across southern Lebanon.
It was the latest round of Israeli attacks against Hezbollah targets in recent days, after the IDF warned last week that it would step up the scale of its operations if the Iran-backed terror group is not fully disarmed by the Lebanese military.
In southern Lebanon, the IDF said it had struck a site used by Hezbollah to launch rockets, after renewed activity by the terror group was detected there in recent months.
In the Nabatieh area, the military said it struck several more Hezbollah targets, and in the Beqaa Valley, it said it targeted infrastructure at a site used by the terror group to store and manufacture strategic weapons.
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The site in the Beqaa Valley has been struck by the IDF several times in the past.
The Lebanese health ministry said one person had been killed in a strike on a vehicle on a main highway in the Baissariyeh area of southern Lebanon.
Workers remove the wreckage of a car targeted by an Israeli drone strike in the southern Lebanese village of Baissariyeh on November 10, 2025. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)
The IDF said later that it had killed Samir Ali Fakih, a Hezbollah member involved in smuggling weapons for the terror group across Lebanon. He was targeted in an airstrike in Srifa, southern Lebanon, it said.
An AFP journalist saw a bombed-out car on the road linking the cities of Sidon and Tyre, with traffic piling up as rescuers worked to retrieve the remains.
Separately, the military said it had killed two additional Hezbollah operatives in strikes on Sunday in Houmine El Faouqa and as-Sawana, also in southern Lebanon.
In total, the IDF said 15 Hezbollah operatives have been killed since the beginning of November, adding that their activities had posed a threat to Israel.
According to the military, Monday’s operations were guided by the Military Intelligence Directorate and carried out with the Israeli Air Force under the Northern Command.
It said the strikes were aimed at neutralizing weapons directed at Israel and preventing Hezbollah from rebuilding its terror infrastructure.
The presence of such infrastructure violates the understandings between Israel and Lebanon, the army added, pledging that it would continue acting to eliminate threats.
The IDF has said that the existence of Hezbollah infrastructure and weapon depots constitutes a violation of the November 2024 ceasefire deal that halted over a year of fighting with the terror group. Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF is allowed to respond to immediate threats.
Although Israel was required to withdraw from southern Lebanon under the terms of the ceasefire, it has yet to do so and maintains troops in five strategic locations, despite Lebanon charging that this is preventing it from asserting full control over the south of the country.
Lebanese army soldiers stand guard at a site where a large number of vehicles were destroyed in Israeli airstrikes, in the southern village of Msayleh, Lebanon, Saturday, October 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Amid the heightened tensions along the northern border, the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV aired footage on Monday showing Israeli forces constructing a new concrete wall along the border with Lebanon.
The border was being built on the Israeli side of the UN-demarcated Blue Line, opposite the northern Israeli community of Avivim, and not inside Lebanese territory as some unverified reports claimed.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV shows images of Israeli forces constructing a new concrete wall along the border with Lebanon, behind the Blue Line, in the area of Avivim. pic.twitter.com/SXeVwxCO41
— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) November 10, 2025
Israel’s war with Hezbollah began on October 8, 2023, when the terror group began firing missiles at the Jewish state a day after the Hamas-led onslaught in the south. Israel launched massive airstrikes and a limited ground incursion in September 2024. A ceasefire was declared two months later, with Hezbollah left severely weakened.
Since then, the Lebanese army has drawn up a plan to disarm the terror group and has reportedly expended so much ordnance to blow up Hezbollah stockpiles that it has faced shortages of explosives. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, has vowed not to lay down its arms.
Israel has accused the Lebanese Armed Forces of acting too slowly to implement its plan, and a report on Monday said that it was pressing Lebanon’s army to be more aggressive in disarming Hezbollah by searching private homes in the south for weaponry.
According to the report, which cited three Lebanese security officials and two Israeli officials, the demand was rejected by Lebanon’s military leadership, who fear it would ignite civil strife and derail a disarmament strategy seen by the army as cautious but effective.
Agencies contributed to this report.
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