Four killed in Thursday's Israeli strikes on south, east Lebanon
A series of Israeli air strikes killed four people in south and east Lebanon, the health ministry said Friday, offering a toll for attacks that took place the day before.
The Israeli military said on Thursday that it had targeted Hezbollah "infrastructure that was used for producing and storing strategic weapons", including what the country's defense minister described as the group's "biggest precision missile manufacturing site".
In the Bekaa, the airstrikes had targeted the outskirts of the town of Brital in two waves and the peripheries of the town of Janta near Syria's border.
Israeli warplanes also carried out Thursday strikes on the heights of the al-Mahmoudiyeh and al-Jarmaq areas in south Lebanon’s Jezzine region.
Earlier, President Joseph Aoun had said that his country was determined to disarm Hezbollah, a step it has come under heavy U.S. pressure to take, despite the group's protests that doing so would serve Israeli goals.
Hezbollah and Israel fought a two-month war last year that left the militant group badly weakened, though it retains part of its arsenal.
Source: Agence France Presse, Naharnet
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