Lebanon says 14 wounded in IDF strikes on alleged weapons depot near Sidon

By AFP and ToI Staff 19 February 2024, 10:16 pm

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Black smoke and flames rise from a burning warehouse, hit by Israeli strikes, at an industrial district, in the southern coastal town of Ghazieh, Lebanon, February 19, 2024. (AP Photo/ Mohammed Zaatari)

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) says that 14 people in the country were wounded in IDF airstrikes near Sidon earlier today.

NNA claims that the strikes targeted a warehouse where tires and electricity generators were manufactured, and the vicinity of a factory, leaving “14 wounded, most of them Syrian and Palestinian workers.”

Israel said the strikes targeted a Hezbollah weapons depot in the area.

Lebanon said two emergency responders were injured while putting out the warehouse blaze.

One of the strikes targeted a factory “in an industrial area of Ghaziyeh, wounding at least eight workers,” seven of them Syrians, a Lebanese security source, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media, said earlier.