\n By Euronews\n<\/p>\n
\n Published on
\n 26\/12\/2025 – 10:59 GMT+1\n <\/p>\n
Israel conducted airstrikes on Hezbollah targets across Lebanon on Friday, including a training site used by the militant group’s elite Radwan Force, the Israeli military said.<\/p>\n
The strikes targeted a site used for training operatives, conducting live-fire drills and planning attacks against Israeli forces and civilians, according to the IDF.<\/p>\n
Israel also struck several Hezbollah weapons depots, infrastructure and military buildings used to \u201cadvance terror plots against IDF forces and the State of Israel,” the military said.<\/p>\n
Lebanese media reported strikes concentrated in the northeastern Hermel region. Casualties were not immediately known.<\/p>\n
The military said the targets and Hezbollah’s training activities violate understandings between Israel and Lebanon and pose a threat to Israel, adding that it would continue operations to remove such threats.<\/p>\n
Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire in November 2024 after more than a year of cross-border fighting that began when Hezbollah launched attacks following the 7 October 2023 Hamas assault on Israel.<\/p>\n
The ceasefire required both sides to halt hostilities, with Lebanon responsible for preventing armed groups from attacking Israel and Israel committed to ending offensive military operations. <\/p>\n
The Lebanese army was tasked with disarming Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah has rejected laying down its weapons.<\/p>\n
However, Israel has conducted near-daily strikes across Lebanon since the truce began, saying it is targeting Hezbollah members and infrastructure to prevent the group from rebuilding its military capabilities.<\/p>\n
The UN reported that more than 330 people have been killed in Israeli operations since the ceasefire began. <\/p>\n
Lebanon’s government has come under pressure to disarm Hezbollah, with Israeli officials warning of renewed military operations if the group is not fully dismantled. <\/p>\n
The Radwan Force is Hezbollah’s elite special operations unit, established with assistance from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).<\/p>\n
The unit, estimated to number around 2,500 fighters, gained significant battlefield experience during the Syrian war and is tasked with planning cross-border operations into northern Israel, including potential infiltration and seizure of Israeli territory in the Galilee region.<\/p>\n
Hezbollah has functioned as Iran’s primary proxy since its formation in 1982, with Tehran providing the group with an estimated $700 million to $1 billion annually (\u20ac600m to \u20ac850m), along with weapons, training and political support through the IRGC, according to recent US government assessments.<\/p>\n
Israel killed Hezbollah’s military chief of staff Haytham Ali Tabatabai in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on 23 November, the most senior commander to die since the ceasefire began a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Euronews Published on 26\/12\/2025 – 10:59 GMT+1 Israel conducted airstrikes on Hezbollah targets across Lebanon on Friday, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,86,46,88,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-204908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-hezbollah","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-lebanon","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}