IDF jets hit Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon overnight, kill operatives

Israeli fighter jets struck several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in overnight strikes on Saturday (April 20) into Sunday (April 21), Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said.

The IDF said one of the strikes targeted a Hezbollah operative at one of the group's sites in Tayr Harfa.

Separate strikes hit a Hezbollah observation post in Odaisseh and buildings used by the terror group in Khiam, the army added.

Earlier on Saturday (April 20), amid continued border skirmishes, at least three members of the Hezbollah terror group were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon.

The Israel Defense Forces said that theyhad carried out strikes on Hezbollah operatives in Ayta ash-Shab and Kfar Kila in the morning hours, after they were spotted entering sites belonging to the terror group.

Later in the day, the IDF said they spotted several more Hezbollah operatives at one of the group’s sites in Jebbayn before fighter jets struck the building. Hezbollah announced that three of its members were killed in the strike in Jebbayn.

Their deaths brought the terror group’s toll amid the war in Gaza to 285.

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Since October 8, Hezbollah has attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a daily basis with rockets, drones and anti-tank missiles in purported solidarity with the Hamas terroristsand Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel has threatened to go to war to push Hezbollah away from the border if it does not retreat and continues to threaten northern Israel from where some 70,000 people were evacuated to avoid the fighting.

Hezbollah's entry in the conflict has resulted in eight civilian deaths on the Israeli side as well as the deaths of 10 IDF soldiers.

Hezbollah has named 285 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon, but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 54 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 60 civilians have been killed.

(With inputs from agencies)