A sequence of air raids struck Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, official media reported and AFPTV footage confirmed, a day after heavy bombardment because the Israeli military stated it focused Hezbollah websites.
A minimum of seven Israeli strikes hit separate places within the space, the official Nationwide Information Company (NNA) stated, some sending thick clouds of white smoke over the targets, in accordance with the AFPTV photographs.
The raids adopted two rounds of Israeli military evacuation warnings for websites within the Hadath, Burj al-Barajneh, Chiyah and Haret Hreik areas, saying they have been close to “Hezbollah websites and belongings”.
The NNA stated “enemy plane” launched a heavy strike close to St. Georges Hospital in Hadath, whereas one other hit a “residential advanced” in Haret Hreik.
One other raid “utterly destroyed a 12-storey residential constructing close to the Mar Mikhail church” in Chiyah, it stated.
Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee stated on X that warplanes “beneath the steering of the intelligence companies launched a sequence of strikes that focused army command bases and different Hezbollah terrorist constructions”.
The recent strikes adopted repeated Israeli bombardment all through Saturday of the southern suburbs, usually a bustling, densely populated space the place Hezbollah holds sway and whose residents have now largely fled.
Additionally Sunday, the NNA stated the Israeli military focused villages in southern Lebanon, together with seven strikes on Jibsheet in lower than two hours.
Different raids hit websites in Khiam and in Marjayoun, the place a drone strike on a home brought on “materials harm” to an Orthodox church and different buildings close by, the NNA stated.
The United Nations Human Rights Workplace earlier this month stated it was “alarmed” on the “harm and destruction of buildings devoted to faith”, together with mosques and church buildings, in Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
Since September 23, Israel has ramped up its air marketing campaign in Lebanon, later sending in floor troops following nearly a yr of cross-border exchanges begun by Hezbollah over the Gaza warfare.
Hezbollah stated it had engaged in in a single day preventing with Israeli forces close to Chamaa, about 5 kilometres (three miles) from the border with Israel.
