At least five people were killed and eight others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a building in central Beirut, Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported Thursday. The Israeli army spokesperson warned of further shelling in the south of the city this evening.
The Ministry of Public Health initially reported two deaths and eleven injuries, but raised the figure to five after reporting three people who died from injuries caused by the bombing.
This is the first casualty report provided by the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, after the Israeli army warned of an air attack against a building in the Al Bashura district, in the heart of the Lebanese capital.
Concretely, the Lebanese newspaper Annahar claims that the attack was directed against a headquarters of the Islamic Health Authority, an organization linked to Hezbollah and responsible for offering health care and services.
Since the beginning of the year, the headquarters of this organization located in different parts of Lebanon, as well as the ambulances of its civil defense department, have been the target of Israeli bombings.
New bombings
Furthermore, as has happened in recent days, the army’s Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, asked residents of neighborhoods in the southern suburbs of Beirut, known as Dahye, to stay away. away from certain areas because they risk being bombed. .
These are targets located in the Hadasth Oeste, Harek Hara and Burj el-Barajneh neighborhoods where the military spokesperson asked residents to move more than 500 meters away from several buildings.
This warns of a new night of bombings in this suburb of Beirut where it has become common for the Israeli army to call various areas to be evacuated at night and in a perfidious manner, warning citizens that they are “at proximity to Hezbollah installations and interests.
Nearly 2,000 dead
At least 46 people died on Wednesday and 85 others were injured in bombings launched by Israel against Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.
According to a ministerial statement, these people died in “enemy attacks over the past 24 hours against towns and villages in the regions of southern Lebanon, Al Nabatiye (south) and Bekaa and Baalbek”, in the north. is from the country.
Israeli attacks on Lebanon since the start of hostilities between Israeli forces and the Shiite group Hezbollah have left nearly 2,000 dead.
In total, with the new data, the number of deaths rises to 1,974 and the number of injured to 8,789, taking into account a report published this Wednesday by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
The casualties occurred mainly in southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut known as Dahye, a major Hezbollah stronghold in the capital.
Israel and Hezbollah have been at odds since the war in the Gaza Strip began nearly a year ago, but violence reached a level not seen since 2006 two weeks ago, when Israeli forces launched a massive bombing campaign that devastated entire cities. cities.
