Lebanon: new Israeli strikes south of Beirut

Israeli strikes targeted areas south of Beirut on Thursday morning, according to the official Lebanese news agency, after s a new call à &evacuate the Israeli army which continues its bombings against Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon.

AFPTV footage showed a thick cloud of grey smoke floating above Beirut's southern suburbs. Since Tuesday, at least six rounds of strikes have targeted the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, day and night.

On Thursday morning, the Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, had published on X a call to evacuate the areas of Chouaifat al-Omrousiya and al-Ghobeiry, south of Beirut.

“The Israeli military aviation” carried out two strikes on the al-Ghobeiry neighborhood, and a third “violent raid” targeted the area of ​​Chouaifat al-Omrousiya, on the outskirts of the southern suburbs, according to the ANI news agency.

Bombings had also been carried out earlier Thursday on the suburbs, according to the ANI.

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The southern suburbs, one of the strongholds of the powerful Hezbollah movement targeted for several weeks by the Israeli army, have been largely emptied of their inhabitants, even if sometimes during the day some return to inspect their homes or businesses.

Buildings in the al-Ghobeiry district hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, on November 14, 2024 in Lebanon © AFP – –

And while since the end of September the Israeli army has been leading a ground offensive in southern Lebanon, attempting incursions into Lebanese territory, Hezbollah assured Wednesday that it had fired missiles at Israeli soldiers near the town of Bint Jbeil.

The ANI reports nighttime Israeli bombardments — air raids and artillery fire — which led to “the destruction of a certain number of residential buildings and apartments” in Bint Jbeil.

Bint Jbeil had been the scene of fierce resistance by Hezbollah fighters against the Israeli army during their previous war in 2006. The Israeli army had not been able to take control of this locality, located more than three kilometers from the border.

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