Israel launches new air strikes on southern Beirut
At least three new night-time strikes hit the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital Beirut late Friday into early Saturday, images from state media show.
“Enemy military planes have targetted the southern suburb of Beirut by carrying out a strike near Ghobeiry,” said national news agency Ani.
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on a building in the Chiyah district of Beirut’s southern suburbs
‘A brutal enemy’: Lebanese denounce Israel after latest attacks
Beirut residents described the latest attacks by Israel’s air force with dozens killed in the past day.
Mohammed Alaa el-Din, a resident of Aamachki who lost family members in an Israeli strike on his house, described the attack.
“Five minutes after leaving my house to visit my sister, I looked back and saw the missile targeting my home. I rushed to see what had happened, but I found no trace of my house. There was a large crater where it used to be, and I began collecting body parts [of the victims] scattered hundreds of metres away,” said Alaa el-Din.
Abeer Darwich also survived an Israeli strike on her home.
“I’m living in this building that Israel attacked today. This is not a targeting, this is an aggression because [Israel] attacked peaceful people in their homes, people’s residences, and the commercial shops below,” she said.
“Israel suddenly decided this because it is an usurper, a brutal enemy. The whole world needs to know, those who are defending Israel, that it is an usurper, a brutal enemy that’s killing civilians in their homes.”
Israeli military says Hezbollah fired 80 rockets on Friday
The Israeli military said that it counted about 80 rocket launches crossing from southern Lebanon into northern Israel on Friday. Earlier, we reported that Hezbollah had fired three waves of rockets, a total of 30 projectiles, in less than 20 minutes, towards northern Israel, according to Israeli Army Radio.
The Lebanese armed group says it has launched the rockets at Israeli forces in the Deir Mimas triangle.
No casualties have been reported.
