Flames and smoke errupt from the location of an Israeli airstrike that focused a home within the southern Lebanese village of Tair Filsay on November 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP
The Israeli navy has stored up frequent air strikes in Lebanon despite a ceasefire sealed final November that sought to finish greater than a yr of hostilities with Iran-backed Hezbollah.
The newest raids got here a day after 13 individuals have been killed in a strike that Israel stated had focused Hamas members in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon — the deadliest assault for the reason that truce got here into impact.
Israel’s navy stated Wednesday (November 19, 2025) that it had struck “several weapons storage facilities belonging to Hezbollah’s rocket unit in southern Lebanon”, calling such websites “a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon”.
It had beforehand warned residents to evacuate the realm round websites within the southern Lebanese cities of Deir Kifa, Shehur, Ainata and Tayr Felsay.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) later stated raids hit all 4 places.
In Deir Kifa, Lebanese troopers deployed close to the focused constructing, which collapsed after the strike, an AFP correspondent noticed.
An AFP journalist in Tayr Felsay noticed fireballs and smoke erupt after the raid there.
In its evacuation warnings on X, the Israeli navy had stated it could strike Hezbollah “military infrastructure… in response to Hezbollah’s prohibited attempts to rebuild its activities in the area”.
‘Dozens’ of web sites
In a subsequent assertion, the navy singled out the city of Beit Lif, only a few kilometres from the Israeli border.
It accused Hezbollah of rebuilding “dozens of terrorist infrastructure sites in the area of the village, including headquarters and weapons storage facilities”, some inside civilian properties.
Lebanon says Israel is violating the truce with its strikes, and by sustaining troops in 5 areas of the nation’s south.
Under heavy U.S. stress and fears of expanded Israeli assaults, Lebanon has dedicated to disarming Hezbollah, however the militant group has rejected the thought of handing over its weapons.
Earlier on Wednesday (November 19, 2025), Lebanon’s Health Ministry stated one individual was killed and 11 others wounded in an Israeli strike on a automobile in south Lebanon’s Tiri that Israel stated killed a Hezbollah operative.
The NNA reported that the person killed labored for the native municipality, and stated the strike happened as a college bus carrying college students handed by, wounding some on board.
On Tuesday (November 18, 2025), Israel stated it struck a Hamas coaching compound in south Lebanon’s Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp.
The Palestinian militant group denied it had navy installations in Lebanon’s refugee camps and referred to as Israel’s claims “lies”.
Published – November 20, 2025 12:38 am IST
