BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The outskirts of the town of Ghaziyé in Lebanon, around sixty kilometers from the border with Israel, were the target of at least two aerial bombardments on Monday, witnesses reported.
The latter said they heard several powerful detonations and saw two thick columns of black smoke rising from the outskirts of this town located on the Mediterranean coast, just south of Saida.
The Israeli army said it struck weapons depots near Saida in retaliation for a drone launch by Lebanese Hezbollah against Israeli territory.
“We spotted a Hezbollah unmanned flying object near Tiberias, which apparently crossed (the border) today and crashed near Tiberias. In response to this activity, we attacked weapons depots near of Saida,” said Daniel Hagari, spokesperson for the Israeli army, during a press briefing broadcast on television.
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Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah, a Shiite movement supported by Iran, have increased exchanges of fire and cross-border attacks since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip triggered by the attack by Palestinian Hamas on Israeli territory on October 7.
(Written by Laila Bassam and Maya Gebeily in Beirut, Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem, French version Bertrand Boucey, edited by Nicolas Delame)
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