An Israeli bombardment targeted a residential building in the Cola district of Beirutin the first air attack on the Lebanese capital since hostilities began between the Shiite group Hezbollah and Israel almost a year ago, local media reported.
The attack targeted a property in this district of Sunni Muslim majority in the Lebanese capitalwhich until now had not been the target of Israel’s massive airstrikes campaign, which has repeatedly targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut known as Dahye, a stronghold of Hezbollah.
Lebanese media reported that the attack was aimed at suspected members of the Lebanese Sunni group. Jamaa al Islamiyaally of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and accused by Israel of participating in the outbreak of violence against its army from southern Lebanon.
Likewise, witnesses consulted by local media said that a loud explosion was heard in the Cola neighborhood, where a visible smoke plume other districts of the capital.
Israeli forces have not yet commented on this action which, according to local press, provoked at least two dead and triggered all the alarms at a time when the country is still holding its breath after the death of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in an Israeli bombing perpetrated Friday in Dahye.
Until now, the capital of Lebanon was not within reach of Israelwhich bombed the southern suburbs of Beirut several times last year.
Intense bombing campaign
Israel continued this Sunday its intense bombing campaign that began a week ago against Hezbollah’s main strongholds in the south and east of Lebanon, but also in Lebanon. Dahye and other areas further north of the capital which, until recently, had not been the target of Israeli attacks.
Only Sunday, at least 105 people died during intense day Israeli bombings which, in a little over a week, left more than a thousand dead and more than 6,000 injured, according to the Lebanese government.
This caused approximately a million people have left their homes in recent days», according to Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, who recalled on Sunday that his government had been calling for a truce in Gaza and Lebanon for “seven or eight months”.
