IDF Strikes Hezbollah Weapons Transport in Southern Lebanon

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Smoke seen after a blast in the village of Yaroun in Southern Lebanon, as seen from Moshav Avivim in northern Israel, Dec. 17, 2024.

An Israel Defense Forces aircraft carried out a strike on a Hezbollah terrorist in Southern Lebanon on Tuesday after the army detected a man loading weapons into a car, which violates Jerusalem’s ceasefire deal with Beirut.

An aircraft attacked the vehicle “to remove the threat,” the IDF said in a statement, stressing that the Iranian-backed terror group’s presence in the area “violated the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”

“The IDF continues to be committed to the understandings regarding the ceasefire in Lebanon, is deployed in Southern Lebanon, and will act to remove any threat to the State of Israel and its citizens,” it concluded.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese daily Al Akhbar reported that a drone targeted a vehicle in the village of Majdal Zoun. According to the report, two people were wounded in the drone strike.

Under the terms of the ceasefire deal reached with Beirut on Nov. 26, Israeli forces are to withdraw gradually from the country.

Hezbollah must retreat north of the Litani River, about 20 miles north of the border, while the Lebanese Armed Forces deploy along the 75-mile frontier, along with monitors from the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL.

On Monday, the IDF announced that after three months in Lebanon, troops of its 98th Division were redeploying to the Gaza Strip. The military said that the division dismantled more than 300 Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites.

Israeli ground forces entered Southern Lebanon in early October after a year of incessant Hezbollah rocket, suicide drone and missile attacks.