No letup in Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon
These air strikes on Beirut have been taking place on a nightly basis, especially since the escalation has heated up in the last couple of weeks.
We have seen a few in the past couple of hours hitting Dahiyeh and those southern suburbs of Beirut. We know that there’s an airport just adjacent and there’s one airline still operating: Middle East Airlines.
We’re seeing these flights going through these plumes of smoke. It is also very scary for people living there. On Sunday evening, we saw some of the heaviest bombardment in this area. Late into the evening, there was a massive explosion.
The suburbs have predominantly emptied of people but there will still be a few there. Paramedics cannot get in to see if there are any injuries or fatalities.
Explosion lights up Beirut’s skies after Israeli evacuation order
An explosion on Monday, October 7, lights up the sky over Beirut's southern suburbs.
The skies of Beirut were lit up by an explosion on Monday evening (local time) amid nightly strikes that have targeted the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital city since September 27.
A CNN camera captured the explosion, which lit up the skies for less than a second but cast an orange light from the area that was targeted. CNN staff also heard several strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs during the day.
Approximately half an hour before the explosion was captured by CNN, Avichay Adraee, the Arabic spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), warned residents that the IDF was going to target two areas in the southern suburbs, Burj Al-Barajneh and Hadath, which he said were located near Hezbollah facilities and interests.
In a later statement, the IDF said the Israeli Air Force had conducted strikes on “terror targets belonging to Hezbollah’s Intelligence Headquarters” on Monday night. The IDF said it had also struck alleged Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa area on Monday morning, including “weapons storage facilities, terror infrastructure sites, and a launcher.”
