Israeli military says it carried out air strikes in southern Lebanon

The Israeli military on Thursday said it carried out air strikes in southern Lebanon on what it described as a "weapons storage facility and underground infrastructure used by Hezbollah". 

Lebanon and Israel are still technically in a state of war, but all the recent armed conflicts with Israel were fought by Hezbollah, not the Lebanese military.

The only diplomatic contact between Israel and Lebanon is through a ceasefire monitoring mechanism, which includes the United States, France and the United Nations.

Despite a ceasefire that came into force in November last year, Israel continues to carry out near-daily strikes in southern Lebanon.  

On 30 October, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun instructed the commander of the army to "confront any Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon", after Israeli forces crossed the border, entered a municipal building in the southern town of Blida and killed an employee. 

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned the incident, calling it “a blatant attack on the institutions and sovereignty of the Lebanese state”.