Israeli army issues new evacuation orders for Beirut
Avichay Adraee, the army’s Arabic language spokesman, has published the details of its latest orders for the people of Beirut’s southern suburbs to flee their homes. As is typical, he published a map that highlights buildings the army has deemed “Hezbollah infrastructure”, saying the Chouaifet el-Aamroussieh and Ghobeiry areas will be targeted.
Israel attacks Beirut
Nearly an hour after the Israeli army published new evacuation orders for the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, our correspondent on the ground reports an Israeli drone strike in the area.
State-run National News Agency reported Israel launched a “violent” attack on the Ghoibery area, which came under the latest evacuation orders, hitting near Rawadat al-Shahedain.
The destruction following an Israeli air raid on the al-Ghobeir neighbourhood
Israel claims to have killed 200 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon in the past week
The Israeli army also claims to have destroyed more than 140 rocket launchers belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon during the past week.
It said in a statement on Telegram that the latest attacks on Hezbollah’s offensive capabilities, which had been targeting Israel’s western Galilee area and the centre of the country, came yesterday and on Tuesday.
Also on Tuesday, Israeli warplanes killed the head of a battalion’s operations, the head of a battalion anti-aircraft unit and a company commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan force, the army claimed.
Hezbollah has not announced any deaths in the past week.
Hezbollah maintains military capability Israel claims to have destroyed
The recent Israeli activity in Lebanon’s Beirut southern suburbs is perhaps unsurprising given Hezbollah’s attack on Tel Aviv yesterday. Hezbollah still has that military capability that Israel says it has destroyed.
We have been speaking to people in Beirut’s targeted suburbs. They are telling us there is severe damage as a result of the Israeli air raids. Many homes and businesses are simply gone.
When Israel puts these forced evacuation orders on a particular building, it is not just that building – it’s all of the buildings around it that also get emptied out and hit in the air raids.
Footage shows moment Israeli missile falls on Beirut’s southern suburb
Lebanese platforms and activists have shared footage of the moment a building was bombed by Israel in the Choueifat area in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. The video below, showing the huge explosion, was verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad.
منذ الصباح الباكر ...
غارات ع مد عينك والنظر
منطقة #الشويفات pic.twitter.com/LrfvvmyRZU
— Darine Succar 🇱🇧♥️ (@DarineSuccar7) November 14, 2024
