A Lebanese security source said that the Israeli army carried out its first strike on Beirut on Monday in a year of exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah, bringing to at least 109 the number of deaths in the last 24 hours in Lebanon. The Palestinian movement Hamas announced Monday that its leader in Lebanon had been killed in an airstrike in the south of the country, where the Israeli army is carrying out raids against Hezbollah.
If in recent days, the Israeli army has repeatedly shelled the southern suburbs of Beirut, stronghold of the Islamist movement, this is the first time that it has targeted the capital within the walls since the start of the front opened by Hezbollah on October 8, the day after the unprecedented attack by Palestinian Hamas in Israel.
According to this Lebanese security source, “at least four people were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting an apartment belonging to Jamaa Islamiya in Beirut intramuros“This Lebanese Sunni Islamist group supported Hezbollah in its operations in northern Israel.”in support” to Hamas.
This strike comes as the Israeli army maintains its military pressure against Hezbollah for the seventh consecutive day, via violent strikes against its strongholds across Lebanon, two days after killing its leader Hassan Nasrallah. These raids left at least 105 dead on Sunday according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Israel said it attacked on Sunday “dozens of terrorist targets“of the Shiite movement in Lebanon, including rocket launch sites and military installations. On Sunday evening, the Israeli army claimed to have carried out around 120 additional strikes”large-scale” in the country.
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