Jerusalem:
Israel carried out a contemporary assault Sunday on Hezbollah’s southern Beirut bastion, a Lebanese safety official informed AFP, with the Israeli navy asserting a “exact strike”.
The newest assault got here days after an analogous strike killed the group’s highly effective chief Hassan Nasrallah, sending tensions hovering amid intensive Israeli strikes on the nation’s east, south and south Beirut.
“Israel carried out an air strike on Beirut’s southern suburb,” mentioned the Lebanese official, requesting anonymity to debate delicate issues.
AFP correspondents heard a loud explosion and noticed smoke billowing from the world.
Lebanon’s state-run Nationwide Information Company reported a “violent raid carried out by Israeli warplanes”, including that ambulances had rushed to the world of Beirut’s southern suburbs.
A witness informed AFP a rocket hit a constructing, which immediately collapsed.
In current days, Israel has shifted the main focus of its navy operations from Gaza to Lebanon, after almost a yr of low-level cross-border hearth with Hezbollah, killing a whole lot in Lebanon and displacing scores extra.
The group started exchanging cross-border hearth with Israel in help of ally Hamas a day after the Palestinian militant group’s unprecedented October 7 assault on Israel, which triggered struggle within the Gaza Strip.
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