Israel conducts airstrikes on “dozens” of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon: IDF

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The Israeli military said on Sunday it had carried out attacks on “dozens” of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, two days after the group’s head, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an airstrike.

The Israel Defense Forces “have attacked dozens of terrorist targets on Lebanese territory over the past few hours,” the army said in a statement to Telegram.

The statement said the attacks targeted “buildings where the organization’s weapons and military structures were stored.”

He added that over the past day, Israel had attacked “hundreds” of Hezbollah targets in an attempt to neutralize the group.

An Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb on Friday killed longtime Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, raising fears of all-out war in the region.

According to health ministry data, more than 700 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since it began bombing Hezbollah strongholds earlier this month.

Hezbollah launched low-intensity cross-border attacks on Israeli troops a day after its Palestinian ally, Hamas, launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, sparking a war in the Gaza Strip.

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