The air attack on Beirut has driven more than 1.2 million Lebanese from their homes.
BEIRUT - Israel said it had targeted the intelligence headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut and was assessing the damage on Oct 4 after a series of strikes on senior figures in the group that Iran’s Supreme Leader dismissed as counterproductive., which Iran had carried out in response to Israel’s military action in Lebanon.
The first alert warned residents in a building in the Burj al-Barajneh neighbourhood and the second in a building in Choueifat district. The government in Lebanon says more than 2,000 people have been killed there in the past year, most in the past two weeks.The Lebanese government has accused Israel of targeting civilians, pointing to dozens of women and children killed. It has not broken down the overall figure between civilians and Hezbollah fighters.
The latest bloodletting in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict stems from an attack by Palestinian Hamas militants’ Oct 7, 2023, that killed 1,200 and in which about 250 were taken as hostages, according to Israeli tallies. Israel says the operations aim to allow tens of thousands of its citizens to return home after Hezbollah bombardments that forced them to evacuate from its north.
Axios reporter Barak Ravid cited three Israeli officials as saying that Hezbollah official Safieddine, rumoured to be Nasrallah’s successor, had been targeted in an underground bunker in Beirut overnight but his fate was not clear.
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