“The Israeli army struck a Hezbollah command center,” explained the Israeli army while contradictory statements in Lebanon mentioned a senior Hezbollah official as the target of this strike.
If during the day of Saturday, more than 50 people died in Lebanon after Israeli strikes, it was the attack that same morning on an eight-story residential building completely destroyed using five missiles which was the most deadly with 29 dead, and dozens injured, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
This strike also damaged several nearby buildings and ambulances flocked to the site of the targeted building, which turned into a pile of rubble, in this popular and densely populated district of Basta, according to images from AFPTV . “A senior Hezbollah official was targeted,” said a Lebanese security source without revealing his identity. “It was not possible to know whether he was killed,” she added, speaking on condition of anonymity. Amin Cherri, a Hezbollah deputy, for his part denied that a leader of the Lebanese movement had been targeted in Basta. “There are no party officials in the two targeted buildings,” he said during a visit to the site.
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For the first time on Friday, Israeli troops entered the village of Deir Mimas, about 2.5 km from the border. “Enemy reconnaissance drones” flew over largely deserted Deir Mimas, warning residents “not to leave their homes,” Ani reported. The IDF attempted to advance in several places along the border, including in the town of Khiam, which Israel also bombed. For its part, Hezbollah also claimed responsibility for numerous attacks on Friday.
This Monday morning, new Israeli strikes took place on the southern suburbs of Beirut after an order from the Israeli army to evacuate neighborhoods in this sector which had already been violently shelled on Sunday evening. “Israeli aircraft carried out three strikes on the surroundings of Haret Hreik”, a neighborhood in the southern suburbs, said the National News Agency (ANI, official). The Arabic-speaking spokesperson for the Israeli army Avichay Adraee had warned on the X platform that three buildings in Haret Hreik were going to be targeted, calling on residents to evacuate.
This area on the outskirts of Beirut has been deserted by a large part of its inhabitants since strikes began to target it intensively two months ago.
On Monday, classes were suspended in schools in Beirut and its region after a particularly violent weekend, during which the suburbs were intensely bombed.
