Air raids continue in densely built Beirut suburbs
Strikes have resumed in Beirut’s southern suburbs after evacuation orders for 11 buildings. There aren’t many people left, but the area is very densely built-up, so the strikes do not just damage the buildings that are directly targeted but those around them too.
This morning we saw videos of people fleeing the scene as plumes of smoke were rising. Most people have evacuated the area, but many go back during the day to check on their houses, so this may have been what happened earlier.
Israel yesterday hit Ain Yaaqoub, the northernmost town that has been hit so far, which has no known Hezbollah presence. We don’t know what the Israeli army hit, but they are now hitting places that are not associated with Hezbollah, leaving Lebanese people feeling that there isn’t anywhere safe.
Smoke billows over Beirut’s southern suburbs after an Israeli strike
Northern Israeli mayors to Netanyahu: No agreement until Hezbollah withdraws north of Litani River
Mateh Asher Regional Council head Moshe Davidovitch, who leads a forum comprised of mayors in northern Israel, has addressed a letter to Netanyahu advising him to avoid an agreement with Lebanon until Hezbollah forces have withdrawn beyond the Litani River, Israel’s Ynet News reports.
“You promised that we won’t be able to reach an agreement until Hezbollah is backed beyond the Litani River. We’ll only be able to return residents to their homes with their safety assured,” Ynet quoted him as saying in western Galilee.
One killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon’s Hermel
At least one person has been killed and four injured in Lebanon’s Hermel, a town in the eastern Baalbek-Hermel governorate, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted Lebanon’s eastern town of Hermel
Hezbollah claims rocket attack on Israel’s Kfar Yuval settlement
The Lebanese armed group says its fighters have launched rockets at the Kfar Yuval settlement in northern Israel, near the towns of Metula and Kiryat Shmona.
We have reported earlier that the group claimed to have attacked the Kfar Blum settlement in Israel’s upper Galilee region and confronted an Israeli drone above Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate.
