Several Israeli attacks on Beirut and its southern suburbs, as Israel prepares to discuss a ceasefire in the afternoon.
An Israeli attack targeted a building housing displaced people in the heart of Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least three people, while massive raids targeted the capital’s suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, according to the National Agency. of Information (NNA).
The attack in Beirut targeted the densely populated neighborhood of Noueiri and “they destroyed a four-story building that housed displaced people”according to the ANN. The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported in a new report that there were at least three dead and 26 injured. Initially it mentioned one death and ten injuries.
At the same time, consecutive attacks, the most violent since the start of the war between Hezbollah and Israel more than two months ago, are targeting the southern suburbs, according to ANE. “A ring of fire engulfs the suburbs”the agency said. A thick cloud of smoke covers the neighborhoods of the southern suburb, according to AFPTV images, and explosions echo in the capital.
The Israeli army had recently requested the evacuation of around twenty areas of the southern suburbs that, according to it, house Hezbollah infrastructure. These attacks come when the Israeli security cabinet must decide in the afternoon on a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, where Israel is fighting the Islamist movement.
