Israel Bombs Beirut at the first strike since November ceased the fire
IsraelThe aerial force conducted a heavy strike in a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beir Friday, says a Reuters witness.
It was the first heavy bombing there since then A truce in November ended a war between Israel and the Lebanese military group Hezbollah.
The strike, which resounded through Beirut and produced a large column of black smoke, followed an evacuation order by the Israeli military for the neighborhood and three small drones of drones on the building understood as warnings, told Reuters Safety sources.
In some parts of the South, they felt shots that warn people to leave their homes.
Many people have been seen on foot or by car.
The military of Israel warned people in a place on X in Arabic to evacuate buildings on the southern suburbs of Beirut, where Hezbollah has a strong presence.
“You are close to the structures affiliated to Hezbollah,” he said next to a map with buildings marked with red.
The strike came after Israel promised to take revenge on the rockets launched through its borders, presumably by Hezbollah.
Hezbollah denied to fire the northern Israel rockets and accused Israel of looking for a pretext to continue attacking Lebanon.
The Israeli defense minister said on Friday that if there was no peace in the northern communities of Israel, there would not even be peace in Beirut.
Hezbollah started to launch missiles, drones and missiles in Israel the next day Hamas‘7 October 2023 Attack from Gaza he turned on the war there.
The Israel-Hezbollah conflict Ribblyted in an all -field war in September While Israel made waves of air attacks and killed most of the senior leaders of the militant group. The fighting killed over 4,000 people in Lebanon and have cleared around 60,000 Israelis.
Israeli forces were should retire from all over the Lebanese territory by the end of January under the agreement of ceased the fire. The deadline was extended to February 18, but Israel remained in five offices in Lebanon in front of the communities in the north of Israel.
Meanwhile, Israel has created dozens of air attacks in southern and oriental Lebanon, saying that he attacked Hezbollah, while the attacks of drones continued that killed several members of the militant group.
Last week, Israeli air attacks in different locations in Lebanon killed six people.
The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said that the exchange of fires was deeply worrying. “This is a critical period for Lebanon and the largest region,” he said on Friday.
According to an Israeli official who was not authorized to speak with the media, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had met with the best security officials to discuss an imminent strike on the capital.
The escalation arrives when Israel closed its ceased with the fire with Hamas By throwing a surprise wave of strikes who killed hundreds of people in Gaza. At the beginning of this month, Israel interrupted deliveries of food, fuel, medicine and humanitarian aid to about 2 million Palestinians from Gaza.
Israel has promised to intensify the war up to Hamas Returns 59 hostages that still keeps – 24 of them deemed alive. Israel asks that the group gives up power, disarmers and sends its leaders in exile.
Hamas said that he will release the remaining prisoners only in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, one ceased the lasting fire and an Israeli retreat from Gaza.
The war was triggered from 7 October 2023 of Hamas, attacking Israel, in which the Palestinian militants killed about 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and kidnapped 251.
Israel’s retaliation offensive killed over 50,000 people, according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, who do not say how many were civil or fighters.
