Israeli Air Force fighter jets hit a Hezbollah facility in the Beaufort Castle area in south Lebanon on Friday, the military said. Lebanese media reported strikes in the area killed one woman, but the military said the death was caused by an errant Hezbollah rocket.

According to the IDF, the facility, used by the terror group to “manage its fire and defense array,” was part of an underground Hezbollah site that was previously targeted in Israeli strikes.

“In recent days, the IDF identified attempts by the Hezbollah terror organization to restore the site, and therefore the terror infrastructure in the area was struck,” the military said.

The IDF said that the “presence of this site and the attempts to reestablish it constitute a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”

The Lebanese health ministry said one woman was killed and 11 other people were injured in an Israeli strike on an apartment in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.

However, the IDF later denied carrying out a strike Nabatieh earlier today, instead blaming a Hezbollah rocket that was launched amid the strikes on the nearby facility.

“The IDF did not target any civilian building,” said the military’s Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee.

“According to the information we have, the building was hit by a rocket projectile that was stored at the site, and was launched and exploded as a result of the airstrike,” he said.

“The Hezbollah terror organization continues to store its rocket projectiles near residential buildings and the residents of Lebanon, thereby endangering them. Hezbollah continues to endanger the residents of southern Lebanon in light of its refusal to hand over its weapons to the Lebanese state,” Adraee said.

He added that “The Lebanese government bears responsibility for what is happening on its territory, in light of its failure to confiscate Hezbollah’s heavy weapons and rocket projectiles.”

Additionally, a home in the southern Lebanon town of Houla, allegedly used by Hezbollah to observe Israeli forces, was demolished by IDF troops overnight Wednesday-Thursday, the military said.

According to the IDF, the home belonged to Ahmad Ghazi Ali, a Hezbollah operative killed in a drone strike in Houla a week ago.

“The structure was used by the Hezbollah terror organization for military activity, including attempts to gather intelligence on IDF troops,” the military said, adding that “the terrorists’ activity in the structure constituted a clear violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”

The military said the demolition was carried out by the 769th “Hiram” Regional Brigade in a special operation.

Israel has continued to carry out targeted strikes on Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure since it signed a ceasefire with Lebanon in late November, alleging violations of the truce agreement.

According to the IDF, over 180 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in that time.

The ceasefire agreement brought to an end more than a year of fighting with the Iran-backed Hezbollah, including two months of open war in southern Lebanon late last year.

Hezbollah began attacking military outposts and communities in northern Israel unprovoked on October 8, 2023, in a show of support for fellow Iranian terror proxy Hamas in Gaza after it led an invasion and onslaught in southern Israel a day earlier.

Under the terms of the ceasefire, Hezbollah was required to withdraw its fighters north of the Litani River and dismantle all military infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Israel was to withdraw from Lebanon, while maintaining the right to strike threats to its security.

The IDF maintained a presence at five points near the border it said were necessary to ensure the safety of Israeli communities.

Since the ceasefire, the Lebanese state has been working methodically to dismantle Hezbollah’s infrastructure in the south of the country, and is estimated to have seized the majority of the terror group’s weapons stockpile in the same area.

Across the border with Gaza, a Hamas tunnel in Beit Hanoun used in a deadly attack on troops during the 2014 Gaza War was recently demolished, the military said Friday.

In the incident on July 21, 2014, a cell of Hamas operatives emerged from a tunnel and exchanged fire with troops, killing Lt. Col. Dolev Keidar, 2nd Lt. Yuval Haiman, Warrant Officer Baynesain Kasahun, and Sgt. First Class Nadav Goldmacher.

The tunnel, which the military said was a kilometer long, was demolished recently by the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit during operations of the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion in the Beit Hanoun area.

Meanwhile, media outlets in Gaza reported that a confrontation broke out Thursday between Hamas operatives and armed members of the influential Barbakh family clan at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis.

Footage shared on social media captured sounds of gunfire during the confrontation, and burned vehicles and damaged equipment could be seen in the vicinity of the hospital.

There were no known casualties as a result of the clash.

The Hamas-run interior ministry said that “armed individuals operating outside of the law” entered Nasser Hospital, fired weapons inside the facility, set fire to ambulances, and destroyed equipment.

Hamas police forces reportedly clashed with the gunmen, expelled them from the hospital, and arrested several of them.

Anti-Hamas media outlets in Gaza reported a different version of events, however, saying that members of Hamas’s Sahm Unit — a unit tasked with enforcing order and pursuing those accused of theft or collaboration with Israel — killed a member of the Barbakh family and then fled to Nasser Hospital.

According to those reports, armed members of the Barbakh clan pursued them, resulting in the confrontation. The reports further claimed that Hamas forces used ambulances and fired toward homes belonging to the Barbakh family members.

A Telegram channel affiliated with Hamas’s Sahm Unit claimed that Hamas acted against a member of the clan involved in the theft of humanitarian aid entering Gaza. The post did not specify the fate of that individual.

Additionally, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity called Friday for a controversial Israel- and US-backed relief effort in Gaza to be halted, saying it was “slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid.”

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, launched last month, “is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies,” MSF said in a statement, demanding that the scheme be “immediately dismantled.”

There is an acute shortage of food and other basic supplies after the nearly two-year military campaign by Israel that has displaced most of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants, as Hamas continues to hold 50 Israelis hostage.

GHF argues that its model is more effective than the United Nations’ methods, asserting that its aid convoys have not been looted, as it has its gunmen who prevent such takeovers.

But the organization only operates up to four distribution sites across the  Strip, none of which are in the north, and Gazans are forced to walk long distances while crossing IDF lines to pick up the supplies.

There have been near-daily mass casualty incidents in which the IDF has been accused of opening fire on Palestinians it says strayed off approved access routes or using them at forbidden times. Some of these incidents have taken place on roads used by the UN for aid distribution and are not near GHF sites.

Hamas authorities have reported dozens of people killed in many such incidents, though those numbers have not been confirmed.

International aid trucks and warehouses storing supplies have often been looted, with Israel accusing Hamas of stealing aid for its own fighters or to sell to finance its operations, an accusation Hamas denies, while others say the looters frequently are desperate and starving Palestinians.

The UN has acknowledged that its convoys have been plagued by looting, but has blamed armed gangs rather than Hamas and has insisted that the solution is for Israel to allow much more aid into Gaza so that demand decreases.

Israel launched its campaign in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas assault on southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.

Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are still holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 28 confirmed dead by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said. Hamas is also holding the body of an IDF soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 56,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.

Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.