Early evening on Monday, Israeli warplanes carried out several airstrikes on the town of Ghazieh.
Later reports indicated that two warehouses were targeted in the area. No new information has come out on the targeted individuals.
Sources told This is Beirut that the first airstrike was near the “Rim” warehouse, and the second was near the al-Shahouri Mosque in the al-Reiji area in Ghazieh, near Saida. Both warehouses used to store aluminium products, oils and tires.
Reports state the majority of casualties in the airstrikes on Al-Ghaziyeh are Syrian workers, with no fatalities reported so far.
Security forces are attempting to evacuate civilians from the site of the airstrike fearing the ignition of leaked diesel fuel, as the fire from the strikes has not been put out yet.
Israeli Army Spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, took to the “X” platform to declare that the strike “targeted Hezbollah weapons depots near Saida in response to the explosion of an enemy aircraft whose wreckage we found near the Tiberias area this afternoon.”
The Israeli Army Radio then announced that the strike “ was not an assassination operation”.
Two members of the Civil Defense forces in the Islamic Mission Scouts were injured while extinguishing the fire in the targeted warehouses.
