The IDF said Friday morning it struck Hezbollah infrastructure sites in the Beqaa Valley, responding to what it called repeated ceasefire violations and continued Hezbollah efforts to advance attacks against Israeli troops. The military provided no immediate details on specific targets or damage.
The IDF confirmed its second wave of daylight strikes into Lebanon's Beqaa Valley this week on Friday morning, hitting Hezbollah infrastructure sites across the region. The military cited repeated ceasefire violations by the group, which it says continues to advance attack plans against Israeli forces. The announcement came shortly after The Zioneer reported at 10:54 Jerusalem that the IDF had struck the town of Ain Bourdai in the Baalbek area — a fast-escalating sequence of daytime operations the IDF has sustained this week.
The Friday morning strikes follow an intense night of operations. At 08:41 Jerusalem, The Zioneer reported the Lebanese Health Ministry's initial toll of 18 killed and 33 wounded in overnight strikes on southern Lebanon (version 2 of this thread); within minutes, updated Lebanese sources reported at least 23 killed across 28 villages in both southern Lebanon and the Beqaa (version 5). Later, at 09:44 Jerusalem, the IDF confirmed it had struck Hezbollah operatives and terror infrastructure in several areas of southern Lebanon overnight. The military's confirmation of the Beqaa Valley strikes at 10:54 Jerusalem (version 7) represented an official, on-record statement, after earlier reports had relied on Lebanese sources.
As The Zioneer reported on Wednesday and Thursday (June 10–11), the IDF has maintained a sustained campaign of strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure and operatives in southern Lebanon this week, with operations extending as far as the Beqaa Valley. This week's background also includes a June 10 strike on a Hezbollah weapons cache near Tyre, where secondary explosions confirmed stored arms, and continuing daytime activity the IDF has documented in footage.
The IDF has not yet specified which infrastructure sites were hit in Friday's Beqaa strikes or whether casualties were inflicted. The wider casualty figures reported by Lebanese sources overnight — between 23 and 30 killed, per unverified reports — have not been independently verified and do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
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