The IDF is conducting strikes in the Dahiyeh district of Beirut in response to Hezbollah fire toward Israeli territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed on Sunday in a joint statement.
“Israel will not tolerate fire directed at its territory,” the statement said.
The strikes precisely targeted one of Hezbollah’s command centers located within Dahiyeh used by the terror organization to “advance terrorist attacks against the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon,” the military added.
Israeli media reported that the targeted center was housing Hezbollah’s communication systems chief, while the result of the attack is still not clear.
According to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, the IDF notified CENTCOM shortly before conducting the strike.
The Israeli military notified CENTCOM shortly before the strike in Beirut took place, Israeli and U.S. officials say https://t.co/3VF8rUxG4q
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) June 14, 2026
Iranian parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf responded to the strikes on Dahiyeh by commenting on the upcoming peace deal with the United States. In a post on X/Twitter, he stated that the strikes indicate that “America either lacks the will to fulfill its commitments or the ability to do so.”
“If you can’t fulfill your commitments, speaking of continuing the path is impossible,” he added.
Ebrahim Rezaei, an Iranian lawmaker and the military advisor of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, said in a post on X/Twitter following the announcement of the strikes that the only way towards any sort of agreement with the United States is to “discipline the Zionist regime.”
“If this rabid dog is not brought under control, it will bite our own feet before the ink on the agreement has even dried,” Rezaei wrote.
IDF maintains ‘high alertness and readiness in all arenas’
The IDF is maintaining “high alertness and readiness in all arenas,” IDF Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir said during a meeting with Division and Brigade commanders from the military’s Northern Command.
“The entire IDF is determined, alert, ready, and operating with varying intensities in all sectors. Lebanon is our main center of gravity, but we are also preparing for developments in other arenas,” Zamir said.
He also said that the operation in southern Lebanon is leading to “the continued erosion and disintegration of Hezbollah’s southern front,” with the improvements in the security situation being key to determining the “framework of negotiations mediated by the American political echelon and the Lebanese government.”
Since early Sunday morning, several drones launched by Hezbollah have crossed into Israeli airspace, prompting sirens to be sounded in northern Israel.
In response, several Israeli ministers called on the government to intensify attacks against Hezbollah and Dahiyeh.
‘For every drone, Dahiyeh must tremble,’ Ben-Gvir says
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Netanyahu to implement his Dahiyeh doctrine with “determination and force and to demolish buildings in Dahiyeh today” in a post to X, adding that the government had “promised security to the residents of the north, and we must fulfill it!”
In his own X post, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir echoed the sentiment.
“For every drone, a missile. For every violation, fire. For every drone, Dahiyeh must tremble. For every hair on the head of an IDF soldier, a thousand Hezbollah terrorists,” Ben-Gvir wrote. “Against terror, we do not contain, we crush!”
Last week, the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said in a statement published by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-run Fars News Agency that its several hours of attacks had come in response to Israel’s actions against Lebanon.
Iran’s military had further threatened in its statement that should Israel continue to strike in Lebanon, “much more severe and crushing measures will be on the way.”
US-Iran deal set to be signed on Sunday
A deal with Iran is set to be signed on Sunday, and the Strait of Hormuz will open immediately afterward, US President Donald Trump announced in a Saturday Truth Social post.
“The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL,” wrote Trump.
Trump emphasized that the deal was significantly different than that of the Obama administration, which he described as “an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, and would have used long before now.”
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif added on Saturday that the US and Iran have agreed to a framework for a peace deal to end the months-long conflict in the Middle East, with the final text of the deal reached.
Pakistan is now preparing for an electronic signing expected within the next 24 hours, followed by technical-level talks next week, Sharif added.
