Lebanese official media reported Thursday-Friday night that a series of Israeli raids targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut, in one of the heaviest strikes on this main stronghold of Hezbollah since Israel began bombing it on September 23.
The National News Agency reported, “More than 10 consecutive raids have been recorded so far, some of the heaviest raids on the southern outskirts of Beirut since the start of Israel’s war on Lebanon.”
She said the raids were “taken in Beirut” and the surrounding mountainous areas.
The journalist of Al-Hurra channel in Lebanon said that the number of raiders reached around 25.
Nasrallah’s possible successor.. Israel targets Hashem Safi al-Din
Barak Ravid, in a post on the “X” website, quoting an Israeli source, who he did not name, said that “a recent strike launched by Israel on Beirut was aimed at the top leader of Hezbollah, Hashem Safi al-Din. .”
On Thursday night, the Israeli army launched more than 25 raids on the southern bank, which were described as the most violent since the raids began, according to TV journalist Al-Hurra.
A source close to the party indicated that the number of raiders reached “eleven Israeli strikes in a row,” which caused a loud noise that shook buildings and echoes, according to witnesses, reached neighboring areas outside Beirut and its suburbs.
Pictures taken by Agence France-Presse photographers showed huge balls of flame rising from the target site as clouds of thick smoke rose.
Sirens appeared in some cars on the outskirts of Beirut because of the intensity of the noise caused by the raids, according to Agence France-Presse journalists.
Prior to this attack, the Israeli army issued a warning to residents of buildings in the Burj al-Barajneh area in the southern suburbs to evacuate their homes, and attached photos of that area.
Earlier on Thursday night, an Israeli attack targeted a warehouse next to Beirut Airport, a source close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah told AFP.
It was not immediately clear what the warehouse was or what was in it.
The Lebanese army announces its response to Israeli fire after one of its soldiers was killed
The Lebanese Army announced, Thursday, that they responded to Israeli “fire sources” after the killing of a soldier, the second since this morning in southern Lebanon, for the first time since last October.
Thursday afternoon, the group reported that “enemy aircraft launched 3 raids on the southern bank.”
A source close to Hezbollah said that one of these raids “targeted Hezbollah’s media relations office in the southern suburbs” of Beirut, stressing that the office was empty because it had been “evacuated” some time ago.
On Wednesday night and Thursday, Beirut’s southern suburbs were subjected to “17 Israeli raids” carried out by “warplanes” and “warships from the sea” and affected several neighborhoods there, according to the National News Agency. Lebanon.
An Israeli attack at night also targeted “a center for the Islamic Health Authority linked to Hezbollah” in the Bachoura district of west Beirut, in an area not far from the Prime Minister’s Office, while the authority mourning seven of the doctors who died in the raid.
Since mid-September, Israel has intensified its strikes against Hezbollah, which had opened a “support” front for Gaza and Hamas on October 8, 2023.
Since September 23, the bombing has killed more than a thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes, according to official Lebanese figures.
Israel bombs Hezbollah’s “intelligence headquarters” in the “burb”
After a series of violent raids targeting the southern suburbs of Beirut, Hezbollah’s stronghold, on Wednesday night, which included the areas of Haret Hreik, Burj al-Barajneh, and Hadath, the Israeli army continued the raids on Thursday, focusing on different areas. of her
Israel announced on Monday that it had begun a ground operation in southern Lebanon, which has not led to significant progress on the ground so far.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated on Friday in a raid that the Israeli army said targeted the party’s “headquarters” in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
2024-10-03 22:07:52
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