An Israeli strike targeted a building housing displaced people in the heart of Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least three people, while massive raids targeted the suburbs of the capital, a Hezbollah stronghold, according to the National Information Agency (NNA).
The strike on Beirut targeted the densely populated neighborhood of Noueiri and “destroyed a four-story building housing displaced people”according to the NNA. The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported in a new report that there were at least three deaths and 26 injured. Initially, he mentioned one dead and ten injured.
At the same time, consecutive strikes, the most violent since the start of the war between Hezbollah and Israel more than two months ago, target the southern suburbs, again according to the NNA. “A ring of fire envelops the suburbs”the agency said. A thick cloud of smoke covers the neighborhoods of the southern suburbs, according to AFPTV images, and the explosions resonate in the capital.
The Israeli army had recently called for the evacuation of around twenty areas in the southern suburbs, sheltering, according to it, Hezbollah infrastructures. These strikes come as the Israeli security cabinet must decide in the afternoon on a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, where Israel is fighting the Islamist movement.
