The Israeli army and a source from Hezbollah have told AFP that Israel has struck a Hezbollah site in eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border, as tensions soared after Iran directly attacked Israel.
The Hezbollah source has told AFP that “the Israeli strike targeted an area … near Baalbek and targeted a two-storey building belonging to Hezbollah,” adding there were no casualties.
The Israeli army has said in a statement that in response to launches overnight, “fighter jets struck a significant Hezbollah weapons manufacturing site” in the Nabi Sheet area “deep inside Lebanon”.
Lebanon’s National News Agency has reported that “an enemy air strike targeted a building” in the village of Nabi Sheet and “destroyed it”. An AFP photographer at the site saw the concrete and steel wreckage of the building, levelled in the attack.