SIFRI: Lebanese official media said three people were wounded in an Israeli strike early Monday in the country’s east, with the Israeli army saying it had struck a Hezbollah “military compound”, AFP reports.

“Enemy warplanes launched a strike at around 1:30am this morning on a factory in Sifri, wounding three civilians and destroying the building,” Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said.

Sifri is located in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley near the city of Baalbek, around 80 kilometres from the Israel-Lebanon frontier.

The Israeli army said its warplanes “struck a Hezbollah military structure… deep inside Lebanon,” referring to the location as “Safri”.

Last month, a building in Sifri was targeted in an Israeli raid, according to a source close to Hezbollah, with the Israeli army saying it had targeted Hezbollah sites in Lebanon’s east.

East Lebanon’s Baalbek area is a Hezbollah stronghold and has been struck by Israeli strikes in recent weeks.

On Sunday official media in Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a southern village killed four family members, with Hezbollah announcing retaliatory fire by dozens of rockets towards Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.

The Israeli army on Monday said its operation to begin evacuating residents of eastern Rafah in the Palestinian territory of Gaza was temporary and limited, AFP reports.

“This morning … we began a limited scope operation to temporarily evacuate residents in the eastern part of Rafah,” a military spokesman told journalists in an online briefing. “This is a limited scope operation.”