3 dead as Israel says staged strikes in Bekaa on Hezbollah sites

The Israeli army said it conducted air strikes in Lebanon on Sunday targeting Hezbollah military sites storing weapons including rocket launchers.

"A short while ago, the IAF (Israeli Air Force) conducted precision, intelligence-based strikes on a number of military sites in Lebanese territory containing rocket launchers and weapons, where Hezbollah activity had been identified," the military said in a statement, without specifying the exact location of the strikes.

Lebanese official media meanwhile said Israeli aircraft carried out three strikes in the Bekaa Valley in the country's east, two days ahead of a deadline in a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

"Enemy warplanes carried out two strikes on the outskirts of the town of Harbata and a third strike on the town of Halbata," in the north of the Bekaa Valley, the official National News Agency said.