eight injured in raids targeting Hezbollah “weapons depots”

At least two Israeli strikes targeted a town near the main city in southern Lebanon, leaving eight people injured, a security source and the Israeli army told AFP. saying he targeted “Hezbollah arms depots”. Since the unprecedented attack by Palestinian Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, Lebanese Hezbollah has exchanged deadly fire with the Israeli army on the Israeli border. lo-Lebanese.

An AFP photographer heard at least two explosions a few seconds apart in Ghaziyeh, located around thirty kilometers from the border with Israel. According to him, one of the raids targeted a warehouse located near the coastal highway and above which a thick cloud of smoke escaped. Ambulances attended the scene. A security source told AFP that one of the strikes targeted a steelworks in an industrial zone of Ghaziyeh, south of Saida, injuring at least eight workers, including seven Syrians. , working near the targeted site.

Bombings targeting “infrastructure” of Hezbollah

In a statement, the Israeli army said its air force had struck “two Hezbollah weapons warehouses adjacent to Saida”in response to “launch of a drone towards (…) northern Israel”. The Israeli army indicated that the drone was probably launched by the Islamist movement Hezbollah, which daily announces attacks against Israeli military positions.

The Israeli army responds with aerial and artillery bombardments that it says are aimed at “infrastructure” of the party and the movements of fighters near the border. The Shiite party, which says it acts in support of the Islamist movement Hamas, after the war launched by Israel against its ally in Gaza, did not immediately claim responsibility for the drone attack. . Cross-border violence escalated last week, with Israel launching a series of deadly strikes against southern Lebanon on Wednesday, which left at least 15 people dead. , including ten civilians, according to an AFP count. Seven members of the same family were killed in one of the strikes against the town of Nabatiyeh.

These strikes were carried out in retaliation for an unclaimed rocket attack from Lebanon on a military base in northern Israel, which killed a female soldier. The strikes against Ghaziyeh are among the rare Israeli in-depth bombings in four months, with most hostilities with its pro-Iranian enemy Hezbollah having so far been limited to border areas. In more than four months, at least 269 people, mostly fighters from Hezbollah and other allied groups but also 40 civilians, have been killed in southern Lebanon, according to an AFP count. On the Israeli side, ten soldiers and six civilians were killed, according to the army.