- Title: Smoke rises from southern Lebanon following strike near border region
- Date: 28th March 2025
- Summary: BEIRUT'S SOUTHERN SUBURBS, LEBANON (MARCH 28, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF TRAFFIC AS RESIDENTS OF BEIRUT'S SOUTHERN SUBURBS EVACUATE AFTER ISRAELI MILITARY ISSUED WARNING OUTSKIRTS OF BEIRUT'S SOUTHERN SUBURBS, LEBANON (MARCH 28, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SMOKE RISING FOLLOWING ISRAELI STRIKE ON SOUTHERN SUBURBS OF BEIRUT, AS SEEN FROM AFAR / TRAFFIC MAN WALKING BETWEEN CA
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- Keywords: Hezbollah Israel Lebanon strikes
- Location: NORTHERN ISRAEL
- City: NORTHERN ISRAEL
- Country: Lebanon
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001243828032025RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Plumes of smoke were seen rising from southern Lebanon's border region with Israel following a strike on Friday (March 28).
It was not immediately clear who was behind the strike or what its intended target was.
Earlier on Friday, Israel's air force conducted a large strike on a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, the first heavy bombardment there since a truce deal in November ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Israel's military said it hit a drone storage facility in the area belonging to Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.
A U.S.-brokered truce in November put an end to the fighting and mandated that southern Lebanon be free of Hezbollah fighters and weapons, that Lebanese troops deploy to the area and that Israeli ground troops withdraw from the zone.
But the truce has been shaken over the last week by two cases of outgoing fire from southern Lebanon - several rockets fired on March 22 and another set fired on Friday morning.
Hezbollah denied links to either attack. No other group has claimed responsibility.
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