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BEIRUT: At least two Israeli air strikes hit southern Lebanon on Monday near the coastal city of Sidon, state media and an AFP photographer said.
Hamas ally Hezbollah and its arch-foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7.
“Israeli warplanes carried out... strikes on the town of Ghaziyeh,” the state-run National News Agency (NNA) said Monday, adding that a vehicle was targeted and ambulances rushed to the scene, without providing further details.
While most of the exchanges in recent months have been limited to areas near the frontier, Ghaziyeh is some 30 kilometers (around 20 miles) from the nearest Israeli frontier and less than five kilometers from the city of Sidon.
The AFP photographer reported the sound of at least two successive strikes in Ghaziyeh, with dark smoke billowing across the area.
One of the strikes appeared to have targeted a hangar close to the main coastal highway, the photographer added.