The Israeli military says it carried out a “precise strike” on the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, leveling at least six buildings.
The strikes were the most powerful yet seen in the Lebanese capital the past year, leveling six buildings and sending massive clouds of orange and black smoke billowing in the skies.
Top Israeli officials have threatened to repeat the destruction of Gaza in Lebanon if the Hezbollah fire continues, raising fears that Israel’s actions in Gaza since Oct. 7 would be repeated in Lebanon. Asked if the U.S. considers the strike an escalation in the conflict, Singh said the U.S. is still assessing it.NEW YORK — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the Israeli leader is cutting short a visit to the U.S. and returning home.
Hospitals in the area were receiving casualties, but the scale was not immediately clear. Officials at Sahel hospital near the scene of the strike said they had received 10 wounded, three of them critically, including a Syrian child. An Associated Press photographer at the scene said the demolished structures appeared to be multistory apartment buildings.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV said the airstrikes on the Haret Hreik district destroyed four buildings, turning them into a pile of rubble. The station said more than 15 missiles struck the area at the same moment.ons in populated Beirut suburb The strike came an hour after thousands of people attended the funeral of a top Hezbollah commander who was killed the day before.In the city of Tyre, Lebanese civil defense workers toiled to pull out two bodies from under the rubble of a collapsed building after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike Friday.“There she is, this is Sabah,” one man is heard saying as workers removed slabs of concrete and stones to reveal a body.
In a statement, she said tens of thousands of people are now seeking shelter in ill-equipped primarily schools where two or three families are packed together in the same classroom and there are no showers or bathing areas. He added that Israel still sees Resolution 1701, the United Nations-brokered resolution that ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, as the best solution for lasting stability. But that the resolution must be enforced by an international force that is able to keep Hezbollah from setting up infrastructure close to the border with Israel.
The spokesperson said that steps were take to “mitigate the risk of harm to civilians.” The military did not comment on whether militants had been killed in the strike. Israel’s military said earlier Friday it used an Arrow interceptor missile to down the Houthi missile, which saw some shrapnel fall. NNA said nine people were killed in the early Friday airstrike on the village of Chebaa that destroyed their three-story building.
Israel's military did not immediately acknowledge the strike. Israel regularly targets military sites in Syria and facilities linked to Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah but rarely acknowledges them. “These workers have experienced widespread wage theft due to the suspension of work permits and the unilateral termination of their contracts,” said a joint statement from the unions, whose members are active in industries as diverse as construction, education, journalism, agriculture, hospitality and transportation.
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