Official Lebanese media reported 4 Israeli strikes on south Beirut Sunday, shortly after calls by Israel’s military for residents to evacuate the Hezbollah stronghold which has been bombarded for a number of days.
“Enemy warplanes launched two strikes on the southern suburbs, the primary focused the Saint Therese space, and the second focused the Burj al-Barajneh space,” Lebanon’s Nationwide Information Company stated.
The NNA later reported two extra strikes, together with one it described as “violent”.
One AFP correspondent stated her home windows shook after one of many strikes, whereas one other reporter heard loud explosions.
AFP stay video footage captured 4 strikes, two of them triggering massive explosions with flaming flares capturing out of thick black smoke.
An Israeli navy assertion issued in a single day Sunday to Monday stated the IDF had “struck Hezbollah terrorist targets and weapons storage amenities in Beirut”.
Israeli warplanes hit targets belonging to Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut, the assertion added.
They’d additionally hit “Hezbollah weapons storage amenities within the space of Beirut”, reporting secondary explosions after the strikes “indicating the presence of weaponry”.
Earlier Sunday night, Israel navy spokesman Avichay Adraee issued an “pressing warning to the residents of the southern suburb of Burj al-Barajneh and Hadath” to go away these areas.
“You’re positioned close to Hezbollah amenities and pursuits, and the IDF (Israeli navy) will function towards them within the close to future,” he added in a press release on X.
Within the night time from Saturday to Sunday, the southern suburbs had been hit by greater than 30 strikes, the NNA stated, in one of the vital intense barrages but.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah motion and its foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily cross-border hearth for almost a 12 months in fallout from the Gaza battle.
However since September 23, Israel has launched devastating air strikes on targets in Lebanon which have killed greater than 1,110 individuals and compelled a couple of million to flee their houses.
Israel final week killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in south Beirut, a densely populated space earlier than residents fled Israel’s intensifying bombardment.
