Israeli Military Says It Has Hit Hezbollah Weapons Storage Facilities in Multiple Locations Across Lebanon

The Israeli military says it targeted Hezbollah “weapons storage facilities” in multiple airstrikes across Lebanon on Saturday.

One of the strikes, on the outskirts of the town of Al-Kawakh in the Baalbek-Hermel governorate, injured four people, three of them children, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. The ministry said all of the injured required hospital treatment. Another strike hit “empty shops” in the town of Sareen in Baalbek, as reported by the state-run Lebanese news agency NNA.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed carrying out strikes in the Beqaa and Baalbek regions, claiming to have targeted Hezbollah weapons storage sites. It said it had also struck Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in seven other areas across southern Lebanon.

The aftermath of one of the strikes in the town of Jebbayn, southern Lebanon, is seen in a photograph released by Lebanese authorities. Lebanon Central Civil Defense

The strikes followed what the IDF described as a barrage of 55 projectiles fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory earlier on Saturday morning. According to the IDF, the projectiles were aimed at the Upper Galilee and Galilee regions.

Hezbollah, an Iran-backed resistance group, claimed responsibility for shelling the headquarters of an Israeli military brigade in Yiftach Eliklit, northwest of Lake Tiberias, with “dozens of Katyusha rockets.” The group also claimed to have launched multiple attacks on northern Israel throughout Saturday, using rockets and drones to target Israeli military sites. They described these actions as being “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and their valiant resistance.”

There have been almost daily exchanges of fire along the Israel-Lebanon border since the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza broke out following the October 7 attack.