The 2024 Israeli preemptive strikes on Hezbollah occurred on 25 August 2024 when Israel conducted preemptive airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on the eve of a planned revenge attack against Israel by Hezbollah.
During the leadup to the Israeli strikes, Hezbollah fired several barrages of rockets against Israel. 21 August saw Hezbollah launch 50 rockets, drone strikes and shelling on the IDF's Tsnobar logistics site and several other IDF sites in the Golan Heights and Zar'it in northern Israel. Israel responded by striking a Hezbollah ammunition depot, an air defense system and the villages of Abu Sash, Wadi Hamool, Aita al-Shaab, Ramiya and Talousa of the Beqaa Valley. On 23 August, Hezbollah launched more than 100 rocket strikes on IDF targets in Mount Meron and Al-Malkiyya that were intercepted by Iron Dome and caused wildfires. Seven Hezbollah militants are killed by Israeli airstrikes and shelling on Tayr Harfa and Shebaa in South Lebanon.
By 24 August, Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant warned that Israel was prepared to respond to Iranian or Hezbollah strikes, as Israel braced for an imminent Axis of Resistance retaliation. Early on the morning of 25 August, Israel launched a limited series of preemptive airstrikes on Hezbollah launch sites in South Lebanon, having received intelligence that Hezbollah was about to launch a rocket barrage to avenge Fuad Shukr's assassination. Within hours of Israel's airstrikes, Hezbollah put out a message declaring that its retaliatory strikes on Israel had begun. Israel's airstrikes, carried out by 100 jets, destroyed most of Hezbollah's rocket launchers before they could initiate their 5 AM attack. Two Hezbollah militants were killed during Israel's preemptive assault, while one Israeli Navy soldier was killed in an attack on his patrol boat.