The Israeli air force carried out, Friday 1is November at dawn, at least ten strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, transforming entire buildings into piles of rubble and smoking ashes. These strikes came a few hours after a visit to Jerusalem by two American envoys who tried to negotiate an outcome to the war pitting Israel against Hezbollah supported by Iran since September.
“The extension, once again, of the aggression of the Israeli enemy […] and the fact that he once again targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut with destructive raids, are all indicators that confirm his refusal of all efforts made to obtain a ceasefire.declared Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
Israel's security requirements
The Israeli army claimed to have struck Shiite movement targets in the Beirut and Nabatiyeh areas in the south. Bombings also targeted the Baalbeck region, in the east of the country, killing at least ten people according to the Lebanese authorities, and the city of Tyre, in the south, where a building collapsed on the seafront. Lebanese press agency Years also reported strikes on the areas of Aley, east of Beirut, and Bint Jbeil, in the south.
A few days before the presidential election in the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received two American envoys, Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk, on Thursday. These were, according to Israeli media, carrying a plan providing for a withdrawal of Hezbollah from the border areas of southern Lebanon, as well as the withdrawal of the Israeli army from this region, control of which would return to the Lebanese army. and UN peacekeepers. But Jewish state officials have said there will be no Israeli withdrawal before a deal that meets Israel's security requirements.
