Israeli strike on central Beirut on Saturday left at least 29 dead

Israeli strike on central Beirut on Saturday left at least 29 dead
Israeli strike on central Beirut on Saturday left at least 29 dead

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The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Sunday, November 24, that the Israeli strike which targeted the popular neighborhood of Basta, in the center of Beirut, the day before, had left at least 29 dead, thus updating a previous toll of 20 people killed. Furthermore, 67 people were injured, according to the ministry, while the search for victims among the rubble was still underway on Sunday evening.

Hezbollah fired 250 projectiles at Israel. The Lebanese Shiite militia claims to have fired a “salvo of missiles and a swarm of explosive drones” towards a military target in Tel Aviv. She also declared having launched “explosive drones” to a naval base in Ashdod. The Israeli army claims to have intercepted some of these projectiles. According to Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, and certain hospitals, several people were injured, one of them quite seriously.

Two Israeli strikes hit the southern suburbs of Beirut. Two Israeli strikes hit the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanese state media said, after a call from the Israeli army to evacuate certain areas of this Hezbollah stronghold. “Israeli warplanes launched two violent strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the Kafaat sector”declared the Lebanese National Information Agency (ANI).

A Gaza hospital targeted by a drone. The director of Kamel Adwan Hospital, in the north of the Gaza Strip, was seriously injured in the back and thigh by metal fragments on the night of Saturday to Sunday, after a drone attack on the establishment. Eleven Gazans were killed in Israeli strikes, according to the Palestinian territory's Civil Defense.

A new Israeli ambassador to the United States. The Israeli government has approved the appointment of Yechiel Leiter, a close friend of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as ambassador to the United States, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This sixty-year-old of American origin currently lives in a colony in the occupied West Bank.


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