Israel wages new airstrikes on south and east Lebanon

Israeli warplanes on Monday waged two waves of airstrikes on the heights of Jabal al-Rafih, al-Jarmaq, al-Wadi al-Akhdar and al-Mahmoudiyeh in south Lebanon.

Simultaneously, Israeli warplanes bombed the outskirts of al-Nabi Sheet and the al-Shaara area in the Baalbek district near Syria’s border. A drone strike meanwhile hit a pickup truck in the nearby Hermel region, causing no casualties.

The Israeli claimed the south strikes targeted “a Hezbollah site that had been used to launch rockets in which terrorist Hezbollah activities and weapons directed at Israel were detected in recent months.”

It added that other strikes hit “several terrorist infrastructure sites” in the Nabatieh region, adding that the Bekaa strikes targeted “infrastructure inside a site for the production and storage of strategic weapons.”

Israeli drones were meanwhile overflying Beirut and its southern suburbs and other Lebanese regions at low altitudes.