Smoke rises over Beirut’s southern suburbs, after overnight Israeli air strikes, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in Lebanon, Oct. 3, 2024.
Lebanese health officials said Thursday an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in Beirut, killing at least six people and wounding seven others.
The Israeli military said it was conducting strikes in the Lebanese capital aimed the Hezbollah militant group.
“Another sleepless night in Beirut,” the U.N. special coordinator in Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said on X on Thursday. “Counting the blasts shaking the city. No warning sirens. Not knowing what’s next. Only that uncertainty lies ahead. Anxiety and fear are omnipresent.”
Israel’s military said Thursday its airstrikes targeted 200 militant targets in Lebanon, including a building in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon that Hezbollah used to store weapons. That strike killed about 15 militants, Israel said.
Israel announced Wednesday the death of eight of its soldiers who were killed in fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, a day after it started what it says is a “limited” ground operation to destroy militant infrastructure there.
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