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Lebanese Red Cross dispatches 10 teams to Beirut attack scene

An announcement did not say whether casualties were reported. It comes shortly after Israel’s military attacked the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh. The air raids on the Haret Hreik district destroyed four buildings, turning them into a pile of rubble, local media says.


UN watching Israeli attacks on Beirut with ‘great alarm’

The United Nations says it’s alarmed by Israeli air strikes on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut. “The UN is watching with great alarm,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told a briefing.

Witnesses said the attacks hit the densely populated Beirut suburb of Haret Hreik, near the international airport. They described extensive damage in the area, with blocked roads preventing ambulances from reaching the wounded.

Israel erased complete residential block in Beirut’s Haret Hreik

The attack in Beirut’s Haret Hreik area has erased a complete block, around six to nine buildings were either completely or partially destroyed. We are talking about a residential block close to the international airport of Beirut.

For now, we don’t know how many people were killed. But when an attack with such huge explosives, huge rockets is launched towards a residential area, we will expect to see a large number of people killed.

What we know is that Israel has been working deliberately for the past weeks on hitting the southern suburb of Beirut, targeting Hezbollah commanders in different areas to dismantle the command chain of the group.

Now, they are saying that they have hit a command headquarters.



2 bodies pulled out after attack on southern Beirut

Lebanon’s civil defence agency says its teams are working on extinguishing multiple fires that erupted in Beirut’s Dahiyeh district, and the bodies of two people were pulled from under the rubble following the series of blasts.

It said its teams are working on evacuating the wounded, without providing more details.


Resident describes ‘complete chaos’ following Israeli attacks

Al Jazeera spoke to a resident who witnessed the latest, multiple Israeli attacks that hit southern Beirut.

“I’m kind of in shock right now. I was coming back home from work, and suddenly it was like you’re surrounded by thousands of gas bottles, all exploding at once,” Hiba al-Ashkar, who lives in the Burj el-Barajneh refugee camp, told Al Jazeera.

“People were screaming, women screaming. It was complete chaos. There was smoke and fire everywhere. My mom broke down, too. At that moment, you don’t know what to do or what you’re supposed to do. Am I going to die now? It was horrible.”


Lebanese soldiers stand guard after multiple Israeli attacks hit the capital