{"id":129168,"date":"2024-11-23T12:48:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T05:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129168"},"modified":"2024-11-23T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T05:48:48","slug":"deadly-air-strike-on-central-beirut-after-israel-hits-lebanon-in-north-and-south-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129168","title":{"rendered":"Deadly air strike on central Beirut after Israel hits Lebanon in north and south | Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">A powerful airstrike targeted central Beirut on Saturday, security sources said, shaking the Lebanese capital as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/israel\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Israel<\/a> pressed its offensive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">At least four people were killed and 33 wounded in the attack in Beirut\u2019s Basta neighbourhood, Hezbollah\u2019s al-Manar broadcaster reported, citing the health ministry. Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency said early on Saturday that the attack resulted in a large number of fatalities and injuries and destroyed an eight-storey building. Footage broadcast by Lebanon\u2019s Al Jadeed station showed at least one destroyed building and several others badly damaged around it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The blasts shook the capital around 4am, Reuters witnesses said. Security sources said at least four bombs were dropped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">It marked the fourth Israeli airstrike this week hitting a central area of Beirut, where the bulk of Israel\u2019s attacks have targeted the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The National News Agency reported: \u201cBeirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy\u2019s air force completely destroyed an eight-storey residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in the Basta area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Agence France-Presse journalists heard at least three large explosions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Earlier, on Friday, Israeli forces pounded southern Lebanon and the outskirts of Beirut, reportedly killing at least five medics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"258544c1-6057-4f2f-b6eb-e2a24b2a846f\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:7,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Hungary invites Netanyahu to visit as world leaders split over ICC arrest warrant&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;258544c1-6057-4f2f-b6eb-e2a24b2a846f&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/22\/hungary-invites-netanyahu-to-visit-as-world-leaders-split-over-icc-arrest-warrant&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Israeli ground troops also clashed with Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon\u2019s south on Friday, with the militant group saying it fired rockets at Israeli forces east of the town of Khiyam at least four times over the day. Israeli troops had advanced in a string of villages to the west, Lebanese security sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">An Israeli airstrike on a residence near Dar Al-Amal University hospital in Baalbek province, north-eastern Lebanon, killed the hospital\u2019s director along with six of his colleagues, Lebanon\u2019s health ministry said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Four Italian soldiers were lightly injured after two rockets exploded at a Unifil peacekeeping force base in southern Lebanon, a spokesperson for the UN force said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Italian sources said an investigation was under way. The foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, told Italian media that Hezbollah might be responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Israeli strikes on two other villages in southern Lebanon killed five medics from a rescue force affiliated with Hezbollah, the Lebanese health ministry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The more than 3,500 people killed by Israeli strikes over the past year include more than 200 medics, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">In Lebanon, Israel has pushed on with its intense military campaign against Hezbollah, tempering hopes that efforts by a US envoy will lead to an imminent ceasefire. US mediator Amos Hochstein said this week in Beirut that a truce was \u201cwithin our grasp\u201d. He travelled on to meet the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the defence minister, Israel Katz, before returning to Washington, the US news outlet Axios said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The White House said on Friday that the US president, Joe Biden, and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, discussed efforts \u201cto secure a ceasefire deal in Lebanon that will allow residents on both sides of the Blue Line to return safely to their homes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">More than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah along Lebanon\u2019s southern border escalated when Israel ramped up its strikes in late September and sent ground troops into Lebanon on 1 October.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"0e76607c-202a-4ea7-a190-136e21e8e33a\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:17,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Benjamin Netanyahu is a wanted man \u2013 and he has only himself to blame | Jonathan Freedland&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;0e76607c-202a-4ea7-a190-136e21e8e33a&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/nov\/22\/benjamin-netanyahu-icc-israel&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Abeer Darwich, a resident of a building that was hit on Friday in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs \u2013 a once densely populated stronghold of Hezbollah \u2013 had to leave her apartment immediately after an evacuation warning from Israel\u2019s military. She stood watching while an Israeli strike pounded the high-rise building into dust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cDo you know that most of the apartments\u2019 owners took credit to buy those houses? Life savings are gone, memories and safety \u2026 which Israel decided to steal from us,\u201d Darwich said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Evacuation warnings were publicised for several buildings in the area on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">In Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry said on Friday that hospitals had only two days\u2019 fuel left before they must restrict services, after the UN warned that aid delivery to the territory was being crippled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The director of Gaza\u2019s field hospitals, Marwan al-Hams, said all hospitals in the Palestinian territory \u201cwill stop working or reduce their services within 48 hours due to the occupation\u2019s [Israel\u2019s] obstruction of fuel entry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was \u201cdeeply concerned about the safety and wellbeing of 80 patients, including eight in the intensive care unit\u201d at Kamal Adwan hospital, one of just two partly operating in northern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">The warning on Friday came a day after the international criminal court issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/21\/icc-issues-arrest-warrant-for-benjamin-netanyahu-israel\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">arrest warrants for Netanyahu<\/a> and the former defence minister Yoav Gallant more than a year into the Gaza war. The UN and others have repeatedly decried humanitarian conditions in Gaza, particularly in the north, where Israel said on Friday it had killed two commanders involved in Hamas\u2019s 7 October 2023 attack that triggered the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Gaza medics said an Israeli raid on the cities of Beit Lahia and nearby Jabalia overnight to Friday resulted in dozens killed or missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\"><em>With Reuters and Agence France-Presse<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/23\/deadly-air-strike-on-central-beirut-after-israel-hits-lebanon-in-north-and-south\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful airstrike targeted central Beirut on Saturday, security sources said, shaking the Lebanese capital as Israel pressed its offensive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group. 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