2024-02-20T14:00:06+00:00
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/ The Associated Press revealed on Tuesday that the Israeli airstrike it launched yesterday in Lebanon targeted a civilian factory and not a weapons depot belonging to Hezbollah, as Tel Aviv claimed.
The agency quoted the owner of the factory, Mohammed Khalifa, as saying, “This is a company that has been registered for 11 years, operates with electricity generators, is open from morning until night, and receives customers all day long. There is nothing hidden here, and the claim that we have weapons is a lie.”
Sky News Arabia’s correspondent in Lebanon reported, on Monday evening, that two Israeli airstrikes had taken place on the town of Ghazieh, near the city of Sidon, leaving 8 people injured.
The correspondent explained that the bombing targeted “an aluminum factory and another for dyeing leather,” noting that “the Israeli bombing came in response to the targeting of the Tiberias area with a drone.”
The Israeli army radio said that the army targeted Hezbollah infrastructure in the Ghazieh attack near Sidon.
“The attack targeted a Hezbollah weapons depot,” the Israeli military spokesman said.
Israel has been carrying out air strikes on the border area in southern Lebanon against the armed group Hezbollah, which has also been firing rockets across the border.
Israel rarely launches raids north of the border area.