Israel struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after warnings

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Israel’s military struck several locations in south Lebanon on Monday Feb 2, 2026, including in two villages where it issued evacuation warnings, saying it was hitting Hezbollah targets. Despite a November 2024 truce that sought to end more than a year of hostilities including two months of all-out war between Israel and the Iran-backed group, Israel has kept up regular strikes on Lebanon and has maintained troops in five areas it deems strategic. The Israeli military said it struck “several Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in southern Lebanon, in order to prevent reestablishment attempts”. It added that one of the targets was “in the heart of a civilian area”, accusing the group of “continued operations from within civilian infrastructure”. The Israeli army had previously sent evacuation warnings for the towns of Kfar Tibnit and Ain Qana in southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported strikes on the targeted buildings in both towns.