A person walks amid the devastation within the aftermath of an Israeli strike that focused the Sfeir neighbourhood in Beiruts southern suburbs on October 6, 2024. – An enormous fireball lit up the evening sky and plumes of smoke rose over south Beirut early on October 6 as Israel unleashed intense air strikes concentrating on Hezbollah, practically a yr because the Gaza battle erupted. (Photograph by AFP)
Official Lebanese media reported Israeli strikes on south Beirut Sunday shortly after calls by Israel’s military for residents to evacuate the Hezbollah stronghold — repeatedly bombarded for a number of days.
“Enemy warplanes launched two strikes on the southern suburbs, the primary focused the Saint Therese space, and the second focused the Burj al-Barajneh space,” Lebanon’s Nationwide Information Company stated.
An AFP correspondent stated her home windows shook after one of many strikes and one other heard loud explosions.
AFP reside video footage captured three strikes, one in every of them triggering an enormous explosion with flaming flares taking pictures out as thick black smoke billowed.
Within the evening from Saturday to Sunday, the southern suburbs had been hit by greater than 30 strikes, the NNA stated, in probably the most intense barrages but.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah motion and its foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily cross-border hearth for practically a yr in fallout from the Gaza battle.
However since September 23, Israel has launched devastating air strikes on targets in Lebanon which have killed greater than 1,110 individuals and compelled multiple million to flee their properties.
Israel final week killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in south Beirut, a densely populated space earlier than residents fled Israel’s intensifying bombardment.