Live Update 
From the Liveblog of
Monday, February 19, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Monday, February 19, 2024
Lebanon says 14 wounded in IDF strikes on alleged weapons depot near Sidon
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.
