IDF Strikes Hezbollah Underground Weapons Site in Beqaa Valley; Lebanese Army Soldier Wounded Near Nabatieh — Ceasefire Continues to Fray — Day 85

Israeli airstrikes hit a Hezbollah underground weapons production site in the Beqaa Valley and additional Hezbollah infrastructure in the Tyre area on May 23, 2026 (Day 85). The IDF said advance evacuation warnings were issued before both strikes. A Lebanese army soldier was wounded when the IDF struck a vehicle near Nabatieh that had departed a Hezbollah-linked site — IDF stated it identified the vehicle as 'driving suspiciously' from a Hezbollah compound. Air-raid sirens sounded in the Israeli northern communities of Shtula and Shlomi due to drone infiltration warnings from Lebanon. The overnight strikes mark the IDF's continued operations under the 45-day Lebanon-Israel ceasefire extension (announced May 16), which technically requires Hezbollah disarmament and IDF withdrawal from occupied southern Lebanese positions — neither of which has occurred. The Beqaa Valley weapons site strike targets Hezbollah's production and storage infrastructure that the IDF says has been rebuilding since the April 8 ceasefire. Lebanon's cumulative toll since March 2: 3,073+ killed, 9,100+ wounded, 1.6M displaced.