Israeli Air Strike Hits Northeastern Lebanon
An Israeli air strike deep in northeastern Lebanon early Sunday wounded at least three people, a local official said.
The air strike near the city of Baalbek, a stronghold of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, was the latest to hit the area in recent weeks.
The strike occurred a few minutes after midnight and wounded three people according to Baalbek’s mayor, Bachir Khodr, who posted the news on X.
It was not immediately clear what was struck. The strike came hours after Hezbollah said it used two drones carrying explosives to attack an Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system in the northern Israeli town of Kfar Blum.
News also said that three people were wounded by Israeli air strikes on Lebanon’s eastern city of Baalbek overnight, one of which hit a two-story building.
The city is a stronghold of the Hamas ally Hezbollah and it was the third time the area had been hit in more than five months of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese movement.
The Israeli military said in a statement fighter jets “struck a Hezbollah manufacturing site containing weapons in the area of Baalbek.”
Governor Bashir Khodr said on social media platform X that three people had been wounded.
The Israeli military also said “approximately 50 launches were identified from Lebanon toward northern Israel, a number of launches were intercepted while the rest fell in open areas.
