A strike targeted a residential building in the coastal town of Jiyeh, about twenty kilometers south of Beirut, leaving one dead and around twenty injured, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
A security source told AFP that an apartment belonging to the pro-Iranian Hezbollah had been targeted.
The top floor of the building, which has four, was destroyed by the strike, according to an AFP correspondent on site.
“I was going into the kitchen when I heard a loud noise (…) I ran away from the house,” Malika Hajj, a resident of the area, told AFP.
In the south and east of Lebanon, where Hezbollah is established, several localities were targeted by Israeli aircraft and artillery, according to the National News Agency ANI.
In the village of Bouyout al-Siyad (south), bombed by Israel on October 31, Red Cross rescuers, assisted by the Lebanese army, said they had removed the bodies of seven people.
Rescue teams had previously been unable to reach this village near the city of Tire due to the intensity of the bombing.
Hezbollah, for its part, claimed to have launched drones and rockets against northern Israel, and to have fired rockets at Israeli soldiers in the border regions of southern Lebanon.
In the aftermath of the war in Gaza, triggered by a Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 on Israeli soil, Hezbollah, in support of the Palestinian movement, opened a front against Israel, which degenerated into open war last September.
Since September 23, Israel has intensified its strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which have left more than 1,964 dead, according to an AFP count based on data from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
The Israeli army launched a ground offensive on September 30 in the border areas in southern Lebanon and fighting there pitted its troops against Hezbollah.
More than a million people have been displaced by the war according to the government.
In Geneva, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched a fundraising appeal for 100 million Swiss francs (106 million euros) to support around 600,000 people affected by the conflict in Lebanon.
These funds will make it possible to provide them with “immediate and long-term assistance” and also to support the ambulance services of the Lebanese Red Cross, according to her.
“The humanitarian needs in Lebanon are increasing day by day,” said IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain in the press release issued at the end of his visit to Beirut. “The needs are immense.”
– Israeli raid in Syria –
Furthermore, the Israeli air force carried out a strike in Syria on Tuesday against Hezbollah, which is based in this neighboring country of Lebanon where it supports the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
The Israeli army, which rarely admits its strikes in Syria, said in a statement that its “air force carried out a strike against weapons storage facilities used by Hezbollah in Qusayr” in the center of the Syria, near the Lebanese border.
Since the start of Syria's civil war in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on the neighboring country targeting the Syrian army and Tehran-backed groups, including Hezbollah, deployed in support of Syrian government forces.
The rate of these strikes has increased in recent weeks. Israel has previously targeted crossing points between Syria and Lebanon, accusing Hezbollah of using them to transport weapons from Syria.
