Health workers helping the injured after the Israeli attack on Lebanon.
Beirut/Jerusalem The Israeli army has launched a massive air attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut. It is the heaviest attack ever on Hezbollah-controlled territory in Lebanon. The Israeli army carried out this attack on the central part of Lebanon, where more than 20 people were killed. Smoke billowed over Beirut as nearly a dozen attacks began Tuesday morning in Lebanon’s southern suburbs.
After warning civilians on social media, the Israeli military said it attacked Hezbollah positions in the Dahiyyah area of Beirut and later said it destroyed most of the group’s weapons and missile facilities. Israel said it had taken steps to minimize harm to civilians and reiterated its previous accusation that Hezbollah deliberately entered civilian areas to use residents as human shields. However, Hezbollah has rejected this allegation.
Hezbollah also retaliated against Israel
Israeli police said two people were killed in an attack on a residential building in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya. Hezbollah later claimed responsibility for the drone strike, saying it was aimed at a military base east of Nahariya. Israelis have been forced to seek shelter due to drone strikes across the north, the military said. Rescue workers said one explosion hit the courtyard of a kindergarten in a Haifa suburb, where children had been taken to a shelter. However no one was hurt.
Lebanon suffered huge losses
Lebanon has suffered major losses in the Israeli attack. Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes in the Mount province in the center of the country killed eight people in the village of Balchame, southeast of Beirut, and 15 in the village of Joun in the Chouf district. In the south, five people were killed in an Israeli attack on Tefahta, two in an attack on Nabatieh and one in the coastal city of Tyre. Another person was killed in the attack in Hermel, in the northeast, the ministry said. Beirut residents have largely fled the southern suburbs since Israel began bombing there in September. Footage of one of the attacks shared on social media showed two missiles hitting a nearly 10-story building, demolishing it and sending clouds of debris flying. (Reuters)
