Israel Destroys Hezbollah Weapons Factory Amid Terrorist Buildup in South Lebanon

Israel Destroys Hezbollah Weapons Factory Amid Terrorist Buildup in South Lebanon

With Iran-backed Hezbollah continuing to violate the ceasefire, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out a wave of strikes against terrorist targets in southern Lebanon.

“A short while ago, the IDF struck a structure from which Hezbollah terrorists operated in the Bir al-Sansal area in southern Lebanon,” the Israeli military disclosed Sunday. “In an additional strike in the Beqaa area, the IDF struck military infrastructure sites belonging to Hezbollah.” The military identified one of the targets as “a weapons manufacturing site for Hezbollah.”

The IDF is currently carrying out a series of airstrikes in Lebanon. Lebanese media reports strikes in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley. pic.twitter.com/fXRdUAmLJc

— Ariel Oseran أريئل أوسيران (@ariel_oseran) January 25, 2026

According to the November 2024 ceasefire agreement between Israel and the government of Lebanon, Beirut was obliged to disarm Hezbollah by the end of 2025. Hezbollah, emboldened by the weak government in Beirut, threatened to plunge the country into a ‘civil war’ if it was forced to handover weapons. “A senior Hezbollah official has warned Lebanon’s government that pressing on with efforts to disarm the group throughout the country would trigger chaos and possibly civil war,” the Jerusalem Post reported on January 14.

The IDF strikes come as Hezbollah terror chief, Naim Qassem, backed the Iranian regime amid growing tensions with the United States.“The Muslim Ummah is confronting a major confrontation spearheaded by the tyrant United States, and supported by the West and savage Zionist regime,” Qassem claimed in a televised speech on Saturday, referring to U.S. naval buildup in the region as Tehran continues to massacre anti-regime demonstrators.

The Times of Israel reported the latest Israeli strike:

A wave of Israeli airstrikes hit Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure throughout Lebanon on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said, with Lebanese officials reporting at least one dead.

According to the IDF, one of the strikes targeted a group of Hezbollah operatives at a weapon manufacturing site in southern Lebanon.

The military said that it had recently detected activity by Hezbollah operatives at the building, in the southern Lebanese village of Bir el-Sanasel, next to Kherbet Selem, which it said was used by the terror group to manufacture arms. (…)

In a separate strike in Lebanon’s eastern Beqaa Valley, the IDF said it struck other Hezbollah military infrastructure.

🚨 JUST IN: IDF: We attacked Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon who operated at a weapons manufacturing site of the organization pic.twitter.com/tmWrOUofKX

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) January 25, 2026

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised concerns that the Lebanese government is not only failing to disarm Hezbollah, but the terrorist group is remilitarizing and rebuilding its infrastructure on Israel’s northern border with assistance from the Iranian regime.

“The ceasefire agreement brokered by the United States between Israel and Lebanon states clearly, Hezbollah must be fully disarmed,” the Israeli prime minister’s office said in a recent statement. “Efforts made toward this end by the Lebanese Government and the Lebanese Armed Forces” were “far from sufficient, as evidenced by Hezbollah’s efforts to rearm and rebuild its terror infrastructure with Iranian support,” the statement noted.

Hezbollah leader, Naim Qassem, makes it crystal clear: They won’t disarm.

That is a violation of the ceasefire agreement. pic.twitter.com/OcwTgQSWEA

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) January 18, 2026

A new investigative report published in Israeli media shows how great a threat Hezbollah posed to the country on the eve of October 7, 2023. While the IDF scrambled to repel the terrorist invasion on Israel’s southern border with Gaza, Hezbollah terrorist forces had amassed in the north, waiting to unleash a similar massacre, reports suggest.

As Legal Insurrection reported in the past, Hezbollah, particularly its Iranian-trained Radwan Force, had long drawn up a plan to kill and capture Israeli civilians in an October 7-style attack. On October 7, 2023, thousands of Hezbollah terrorists were on the Lebanese side of the border, raring to unleash death and horror on unsuspecting Israeli civilians. According to the news reports, the fact that Hezbollah backed away at the crucial moment is regarded by Israeli military officials as a “miracle.”

Israel’s Ynetnews reported Sunday:

The scenario in which thousands of Hezbollah terrorists would pour into northern Israel in a coordinated ground assault is no longer considered far-fetched. Long before Hamas launched its surprise October 7 attack from Gaza, the IDF was aware of Hezbollah’s detailed plans to invade the Galilee—plans that had been partially published as early as 2011 in Lebanese media. Yet on that catastrophic Saturday, Israel’s northern front was unprepared.

A second wave—an estimated 5,300 additional Hezbollah fighters, both regular and reservists—was reportedly slated to follow. What may have prevented that scenario from becoming a dual-front nightmare, Israeli officials now believe, was a single phone call from Tehran.

While the military scrambled to respond to the unprecedented Hamas assault in the south, some 2,400 fighters from Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force and 600 terrorists from Palestinian Islamic Jihad had been standing by with full gear and designated targets in the north, waiting for the green light.

More than two years have passed since that day, and while the Hezbollah assault never materialized, the northern front remains a source of deep concern. Unlike the widely analyzed intelligence failure in the south, the northern lapse has drawn little public scrutiny, although a surprise assault from Lebanon could have inflicted far greater damage.

No Israeli commanders were publicly held accountable for what military sources now call the “abandonment of the Galilee.” Investigations into the preparedness of Northern Command during that period under the leadership of Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin have not yet been released. “Everyone understood that if something started here, it would be a massacre,” a reserve officer told 7 Days, the weekend supplement of ynet’s parent newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. “We saw what Hezbollah had prepared. It was a miracle.”

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