Israeli forces conducted airstrikes overnight on February 21, 2026, killing five Hezbollah members, some senior commanders, in Ali el-Nahri in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, according to a report by Joe Truzman on X. Earlier on Friday, the IDF struck a Hamas command center in Ayn al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, killing two suspected Hamas members, as stated in the same report. The Beqaa Valley strike occurred in a notable Israeli attack, targeting Hezbollah positions in Ali el-Nahri, with reports confirming the deaths of five members during the overnight hours leading into the reporting window from 4:45 AM to 6:45 AM UTC. The Ayn al-Hilweh operation took place earlier on February 20, 2026, local time equivalent to Friday, hitting a Hamas facility and eliminating two operatives, per Joe Truzman's X post within the window. Separate developments included a report on female fighters of the PAK resistance group, who fled Iran and established operations in a secret location in northern Iraq at coordinates 36.230875, 44.369884. In an interview broadcast by Itai Anghel and JehuditW on X, the fighters delivered a message to Israel: "Attack as much as you can," as translated from Hebrew in an obretix X post timestamped in the reporting window. No direct connection appears to the earlier summoning of Salah Abed, father of activist Amin Abed, by Hamas in Gaza, reported previously between 1:45 AM and 4:45 AM UTC on February 21.
