Israeli jets strike Beirut (VIDEOS)

The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) carried out an airstrike in Beirut’s southern Dahieh suburb on Tuesday. The operation constitutes the most important escalation between Israel and Hezbollah since a truce was signed in November. 

In a press release on X on Tuesday, the IDF mentioned Israeli jets focused “a Hezbollah terrorist” who has “just lately been directing Hamas operatives and helping them in an try to hold out a critical assault” towards Israeli civilians. 

“The terrorist posed an actual and rapid menace, and due to this fact the IDF and Shin Guess have acted to remove the menace,” the IDF said.

The Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadeen reported that the strike “flattened” a multistory residential constructing, killing not less than three folks and injuring seven others. It cited sources as saying that “an everyday member” of Hezbollah was killed. 

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem condemned the renewed Israeli strikes on Saturday. “This aggression should finish. We can not enable this to proceed,” he mentioned, as quoted by AFP.

On Friday, the IDF carried out its first main airstrikes in Beirut since November 2023. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned the assault was in retaliation for rockets fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon.

“We is not going to enable any firing on our communities, not even a drizzle,” he warned. “We’ll assault wherever in Lebanon towards any menace to Israel, and we’ll be sure that all of us within the north return to their houses safely.”

Hezbollah has been firing rockets and mortars at Israel in response to the IDF’s operation towards Hamas in Gaza. In September 2024, Israel stepped up its airstrikes within the Lebanese capital, killing senior Hezbollah officers, together with the group’s longtime chief, Hassan Nasrallah.

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