Israeli operations in Lebanon (June 2025)

Israeli forces conducted intensive operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon throughout June 2025, running continuously as a distinct theatre from the concurrent Israel-Iran Twelve-Day War (13-24 June 2025). The IDF struck Hezbollah command infrastructure, weapons depots, and rocket launch sites across southern Lebanon and the Dahiyeh district of Beirut. Long War Journal documented the operations on a week-by-week basis throughout the month. These were not a discrete twelve-day conflict; they were a sustained operational tempo against Hezbollah that continued irrespective of the Iran Ceasefire.

The Lebanon operations in June 2025 displaced tens of thousands of civilians in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley. The IDF's targeting methodology in this period included both building-specific warnings and broader district-level evacuation orders for Dahiyeh. Hezbollah absorbed significant command losses but preserved its rocket arsenal and political standing. When the wider conflict resumed in March 2026, Israeli operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon recommenced, with some 30,000 people displaced within days of fighting resuming on 2 March.

The June 2025 Lebanon operations are distinct from the Twelve-Day War (entity: twelve-day-war-Iran-2025), which refers specifically to the Israel-US-Iran conflict of 13-24 June 2025 that destroyed Iran's nuclear infrastructure. Conflating the two obscures both the Lebanon civilian toll and the strategic significance of the Iran strikes. Sources: Long War Journal weekly digests, June 2025; Reuters Lebanon bureau; AP; Al Jazeera Beirut.