Israeli jets overfly South and Bekaa at low altitude amid drones over Beirut, suburbs
Israeli warplanes on Wednesday overflew the eastern sector of south Lebanon and the Baalbek-Hermel region at low altitudes.
Israeli drones meanwhile hovered over Beirut and its suburbs and over areas in the South and the Bekaa.
Lebanese state media said that an Israeli air strike overnight Tuesday killed at least two people in the country's east, where the Israeli military said it targeted Hezbollah militants.
"An enemy drone carried out an air strike on the town of Shaara... near the eastern Lebanon mountain range, killing two people and wounding two" others, said the state-run National News Agency.
Israel's said that it "struck Hezbollah terrorists" who "were identified operating within a Hezbollah production and storage facility for strategic weapons."
Hezbollah and Israel fought a war last year that ended in a late November ceasefire, which has largely held despite mutual accusations of violations.
The Israeli military statement said that the activity in the site targeted on Tuesday "constitutes a blatant violation of the ceasefire understandings."
Hezbollah was left weakened by a year of hostilities, including the two months of all-out war, in which its leadership was decimated.
Under the November 27 truce agreement, Israeli forces were to withdraw from southern Lebanon while Hezbollah was to remove its military infrastructure from the area. Israeli troops are still occupying five points in south Lebanon deemed "strategic" by the Israeli military.
Source: Naharnet
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