The Israeli Air Force early Saturday morning bombed hundreds of heavy engineering vehicles it said were being used by Hezbollah to restore its infrastructure in southern Lebanon, in an attack that reportedly killed one and was condemned by the Lebanese president.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said the airstrikes hit Hezbollah sites where the terror group was storing heavy machinery to use “for rebuilding its terror infrastructure in southern Lebanon.”
The IDF also accused Hezbollah of operating in a manner that poses “a threat to Lebanese civilians and uses them as human shields,” while saying that the “location” of the heavy equipment and its operation by the Iran-backed terror group breached the ceasefire agreement reached last November.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned Israel for the strikes.
“Once again, southern Lebanon has been the target of a heinous Israeli aggression against civilian installations — without justification or pretext,” Aoun said. “The seriousness of this latest attack lies in the fact that it comes after the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.”
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Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike on the al-Msayleh area left one person dead and seven others wounded. According to Lebanese media, the person who was killed was a Syrian national who was passing by in a van transporting fruits and vegetables.
تزامنت الغارات الجوية التي نفذها الطيران الحربي الإسرائيلي على طريق المصيلح فجرا مع مرور باص لنقل الخضار ما أدى لارتقاء مواطن وجرح شقيقه pic.twitter.com/lzO6T9LAeF
— bintjbeil.org (@bintjbeilnews) October 11, 2025
According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, more than 10 separate strikes were carried out, destroying some 300 vehicles, including bulldozers, excavators, and over 100 small Bobcat utility vehicles.
Rescuers and first-responders stand outside a damaged building following an overnight Israeli strike in the Al-Msayleh area in southern Lebanon on October 11, 2025. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
Earlier this week, an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed a Hezbollah operative who was operating an excavator, with the IDF saying that “the terrorist was struck while attempting to restore Hezbollah terror infrastructure.”
غارات جوية نفذها الطيران الحربي الإسرائيلي استهدفت معارض للجرافات والحفارات على طريق المصيلح، في قضاء صيدا جنوب لبنان pic.twitter.com/09VDvVemoI
— Annahar النهار (@Annahar) October 11, 2025
Separately, on Friday, the IDF announced that troops demolished a building in southern Lebanon’s Ayta ash-Shab where a cache of weapons belonging to the Hezbollah terror group was located.
The IDF said reservists of the 300th “Baram” Regional Brigade scanned the building before dawn on Friday, following intelligence information that it was being used by Hezbollah.
The soldiers seized the weapons being stored in the building before blowing it up, the army said.
A Hezbollah weapons cache in the southern town of Ayta ash-Shab is blown up by the IDF, in a video issued on October 10, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
Since the deal to end the fighting, which began after Hezbollah started attacking Israeli communities and military posts following its Palestinian ally Hamas’s October 2023 terror onslaught, Israel has targeted Hezbollah sites and operatives in near-daily strikes.
Under the November 27, 2024, ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, weapons in south Lebanon were to be held only by the state, and the IDF was permitted to act against imminent threats by the terror group.
Since the beginning of the ceasefire, the IDF says it has carried out over 500 airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing over 300 operatives and destroying dozens of sites belonging to the terror group, saying they violated the terms of the truce.
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