Beirut/Tel Aviv, 21 February 2026 (dpa/MIA) - The Israeli military said late Friday it carried out a series of airstrikes targeting Hezbollah command centres in eastern Lebanon.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported that at least 10 people were killed and 30 others wounded in the strikes.

According to NNA, Israeli jets conducted six airstrikes, including one that hit a building on the outskirts of the town of Riyaq and another that struck a building in Baddanayel. A third raid targeted a building near Tamnin al-Tahta.

The Israeli military said the strikes hit sites used by Hezbollah militants "to advance terror attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel in the Baalbek area in Lebanon."

It accused Hezbollah of systematically embedding its assets within the civilian population.

Earlier in the day, an Israeli drone struck Ain al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, killing at least two Hamas operatives.

Hamas in Lebanon issued a statement mourning Bilal Dib Al-Khatib and Mohammad Tarek Al-Sawi.

NNA said the strike targeted the camp's Hittin neighbourhood, causing casualties, without specifying the number of dead or wounded. 

The Israeli military said: "In response to the repeated violations of the ceasefire understandings, the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] struck a Hamas command center from which terrorists operated in the Ain al-Hilweh area in southern Lebanon."

The war between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, which intensified throughout 2024, was followed by a ceasefire agreed in November of that year.

Under the terms of the agreement, Hezbollah was required to lay down its weapons. However, a key deadline for the group's disarmament expired at the end of last year.

Despite the ceasefire, the Israeli military has conducted near-daily strikes on Lebanese targets.

Ain al-Hilweh, in the south of the country, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, with approximately 80,000 residents. Most of the residents are refugees from the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 and their descendants.

There are 12 Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon.

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