IDF strikes Beirut’s Dahiyeh after Hezbollah fires rockets at northern Israel

Israel on Sunday carried out airstrikes in Beirut, with the military saying they targeted Hezbollah command centers in the group’s stronghold of Dahiyeh, a large suburb just south of the Lebanese capital.

Two people were killed and at least 11 were wounded in strikes, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported, adding that two apartments in two separate buildings were targeted.

Images of the aftermath showed several apartment buildings heavily damaged.

Iran threatened to retaliate, saying, “Watch the sky of the occupied territories tonight.”

According to the Saudi al-Hadath channel, Israel updated the United States ahead of the strikes. Israel has largely refrained from striking Beirut during the current conflict, at the request of the White House, which fears it would harm Washington’s efforts to secure a ceasefire and future nuclear deal with Iran, which is conditioning any agreement on a truce in Lebanon.

The last Israeli strike in the capital occurred on May 28, which was itself the first strike in the city in over three weeks.

Announcing the strikes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said they came in response to the terror group’s rocket fire on northern Israel Sunday morning, the first rockets fired at Israel since Wednesday, and the first since a porous ceasefire in Lebanon was renewed last week.

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Sirens had sounded in the border communities of Yiftah and Ramot Naftali amid the attack. The military said it intercepted two rockets that were fired at Israel.

Israeli leaders have vowed that the IDF would strike in Beirut if Hezbollah attacked Israel during the ostensible ceasefire.

The IDF, in its own statement, said it was striking Hezbollah infrastructure in the Dahiyeh, with further details to be provided later. It also said it struck and destroyed the launchers used by Hezbollah to fire rockets Sunday morning.

Reacting to the strikes, a senior Iranian parliament member promised a “painful and decisive response.”

“This rabid dog must be disciplined and put in its place. Watch the sky of the occupied territories tonight,” Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesperson for parliament’s foreign policy and national security committee, posted on X.

Iran considers all of Israel “occupied territories.”

Iran’s foreign minister last week threatened that any Israeli attack on Beirut would be a violation of the ceasefire with the US and elicit a response from Iran.

IDF again calls for evacuation of Tyre ahead of strikes

Also on Sunday, the IDF issued an evacuation warning for the southern coastal Lebanese city of Tyre ahead of airstrikes on Hezbollah.

Residents of most neighborhoods and surrounding suburbs were instructed to head north of the Zahrani River.

“In light of the Hezbollah terror organization’s violation of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF is compelled to act against it with force,” warned army spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee.

“Anyone who is near Hezbollah operatives, its facilities, and its weapons is putting their life at risk,” he added.

Tyre, the country’s fifth-largest city and the most populated urban area in south Lebanon, has been ordered to evacuate several times by the IDF. Tens of thousands have fled the city in recent weeks, though Lebanese media has reported that over 100,000 people remain in the city.

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The IDF also announced Sunday that four reservist soldiers were moderately wounded by an explosive-laden first-person view drone launched by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon the day before.

The troops were taken to a hospital and their families were notified, the army said.

At cabinet meeting, PM says ‘Hezbollah is in retreat’

Before the Beirut strikes, Netanyahu held his weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, during which he said that the IDF is continuing offensive operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and warned that Israel will respond forcefully to any attacks amid the ostensible ceasefire with the terror group.

“We will not allow fire to be directed at our territory or our communities, and we will act accordingly,” Netanyahu said in a video shared by his office, adding that the military was continuing efforts to dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure in villages near the border.

“We are striking them very forcefully, and we know that Hezbollah is in retreat,” he declared.

Israeli forces have eliminated 350 terrorists in the past week alone, Netanyahu claimed, hailing the IDF’s capture of Beaufort Ridge, “where they uncovered a vast underground infrastructure.”

He added that “in the Gaza Strip, we are tightening our grip on Hamas from all sides,” reiterating that Israel currently controls over 60 percent of the territory and that he intends that “soon we will reach 70 percent.”

Netanyahu’s comments reinforced similar remarks he made last week, which drew an apparently critical response from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio stated on Tuesday that such a move was not part of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

“We are not allowing them to rearm or harm us, and we are also eliminating their senior commanders,” Netanyahu said of Hamas.

Also commenting on Hamas on Sunday was IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, who said said he had approved plans to “further deepen the blow to Hezbollah” in Lebanon.

He also said that the military would continue to “erode Hamas’s power” until it achieves the goal of disarming the terror group, as he visited troops in the Strip.

“The IDF is strengthening operational control in the area and continues to erode Hamas’s power. We will continue to operate until achieving the goal of disarming Hamas. This is a goal we are not giving up on,” he said in remarks provided by the IDF.