BEIRUT — Israel conducted airstrikes on Hezbollah targets across Lebanon on Friday, including a training site used by the militant group's elite Radwan Force.

According to the Israeli military, the strikes targeted a site used for training operatives, conducting live-fire drills and planning attacks against Israeli forces and civilians.

Israel also struck several Hezbollah weapons depots, infrastructure and military buildings used to “advance terror plots against IDF forces and the State of Israel," the military said.

Lebanese media reported strikes concentrated in the northeastern Hermel region.

The military said the targets and Hezbollah's training activities violate understandings between Israel and Lebanon and pose a threat to Israel, adding that it would continue operations to remove such threats.

Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire in November 2024 after more than a year of cross-border fighting that began when Hezbollah launched attacks following the 7 October 2023 Hamas assault on Israel.

The ceasefire required both sides to halt hostilities, with Lebanon responsible for preventing armed groups from attacking Israel and Israel committed to ending offensive military operations.

However, Israel has conducted near-daily strikes across Lebanon since the truce began, saying it is targeting Hezbollah members and infrastructure to prevent the group from rebuilding its military capabilities.

The Israeli military said an operative with the external arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was among several people killed in strikes it carried out across Lebanon on Thursday.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said the drone strike hit a vehicle on the Hosh al-Sayyed Ali road in the Hermel district, killing two people.

The Israeli military said Hussein Mahmoud Marshad al-Jawhari, an alleged member of the IRGC’s Quds Force, was killed in the Ansariyah area of southern Lebanon after his vehicle was struck.

It accused him of carrying out “Iran-directed terror activities against Israel and its security forces from Syria and Lebanon”.

The IRGC did not immediately respond to the allegation.

The NNA reported another Israeli drone strike early on Thursday afternoon, saying a pickup truck was hit at the entrance to the town of Safad al-Batikh in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district.

In a separate statement, the Israeli army said it killed a member of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

The attacks on Thursday came shortly after a passer-by was injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting a car in the town of Jennata in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon late on Wednesday.

The UN reported that more than 330 people have been killed in Israeli operations since the ceasefire began.

Lebanon's government has come under pressure to disarm Hezbollah, with Israeli officials warning of renewed military operations if the group is not fully dismantled.

The Radwan Force is Hezbollah's elite special operations unit, established with assistance from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The unit, estimated to number around 2,500 fighters, gained significant battlefield experience during the Syrian war and is tasked with planning cross-border operations into northern Israel, including potential infiltration and seizure of Israeli territory in the Galilee region.

Israel killed Hezbollah's military chief of staff Haytham Ali Tabatabai in an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs on 23 November, the most senior commander to die since the ceasefire began a year earlier. — Agencies