Beirut bombed again as Israeli attacks continue across Lebanon
The Israeli air strikes have not stopped. Just this evening, over the last few hours, there have been multiple strikes on Choueifat, which is a neighbourhood very close to the airport here in Beirut.
Those come after at least five strikes across the country in Baalbek in the Bekaa and two in the southern city of Tyre.
In response, Hezbollah announced it carried out eight attacks today, including the rocket attacks that caused the air raid alarms to go off in occupied East Jerusalem.
And the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, as they are called, they fired drones at Eilat. There’s been no word from the Israeli military on that strike.
The Ministry of Health here in Lebanon has updated its figures and just today, across the country, 33 people have been killed in these strikes and almost 200 injured and that doesn’t even take into account the incredibly large aerial bombardment of Beirut that started on Friday night and went all through today and is still carrying on now.
I think the whole country is in a state of fear, exhaustion and emergency.
About 1 million people in Lebanon displaced by Israeli attacks: Minister
Nasser Yassin, the minister coordinating Lebanon’s crisis response, told the Reuters news agency that about 1 million Lebanese people have been displaced by Israeli attacks, including hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes since Friday.
As we reported earlier, heavy Israeli bombardment have forced many families to flee the densely populated neighbourhood of Dahiyeh, in southern Beirut, since Friday.
Families gather in Martyrs’ Square after fleeing the Israeli air strikes in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Saturday
No clear end in sight as Israel bombards Beirut
This has been a nonstop bombardment campaign launched by Israel’s military, and there is really no clear end in sight. Various points throughout Beirut are being hit by Israeli jets and people continue to try and move around the city to find a safe space.
Of course, this all began on Friday in that large attack that killed Hassan Nasrallah and levelled at least six residential buildings in the Dahiyeh neighbourhood in southern Beirut.
And since then, it has been one attack after another in that area as well, now expanding to other areas around the capital, the area near the airport being hit as well – and it is clear civilians are being caught in the middle.
We’re also hearing constant drones overhead throughout the day.
People walk amid the rubble of a destroyed building in the aftermath of Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs in Lebanon, on Saturday
Families sleep on Beirut’s streets amid Israeli bombardment
A young Lebanese family sleep near the seaside amid Israeli bombardment in Lebanon’s capital Beirut
‘Fear, anger, exhaustion’ amid Israeli bombardment of Beirut
There is a feeling of fear and anger and exhaustion. I spoke to one young man earlier today, a man named Hassan who lives in Dahiyeh, and he said everyone he knew, all of his friends, everyone he was speaking to, were just crying. He felt they didn’t know what was going to come next. It’s all or nothing now.
We’ve seen dramatic footage of Jawad Nasrallah – Hassan Nasrallah’s son – standing in front of the huge crater left by these bunker-busting missiles in Dahiyeh. He’s standing there and he is screaming for revenge.
On the other side, you have this fear and there is are still a lot of people who are out on the streets sleeping in Martyrs’ Square, sleeping along the Corniche, and trying to find any safe place they can. Maybe sleeping on concrete benches here in downtown Beirut.
People inspect the damaged following an Israeli air strike in Choueifat, southeast of Beirut, on Saturday
