(28 Sep 2024)
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Beirut – 28 September 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of explosions and fires raging across Beirut’s southern suburbs, the night sky being lit up by flashes
2. Plumes of smoke rising
STORYLINE:
A series of airstrikes hit several locations in the southern suburbs of Beirut early on Saturday morning, causing several smaller explosions and rings of smoke intersecting over the skies of the Lebanese capital.
Fire raged from at least one location, and smoke and flames were seen from above Beirut early Saturday. Residents reported jets flying overhead.
Following a massive air raid that levelled several buildings in the southern suburb of Beirut, which Israel said targeted the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, there were nearly a dozen other strikes in the same neighbourhood, some just an hour after an Israeli warning for residents to evacuate. Hundreds of Lebanese fled the area.
On Friday, the Israeli military says it struck the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut.
Israeli army spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said it targeted the main Hezbollah headquarters, located beneath residential buildings.
Attacks on Hezbollah targets by fighter jets continued into the early hours Saturday after the army said it told residents to evacuate three buildings it was targeting.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly cut short a visit to the United States and was returning home instead of waiting until the end of Sabbath on Saturday evening, his office said.
Hours earlier, Netanyahu addressed the United Nations, vowing that Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah would continue — further dimming hopes for an internationally backed cease-fire.
More than 720 people have been killed in Lebanon this week, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. Israel has dramatically escalated strikes, saying it is targeting Hezbollah’s military capacities and senior Hezbollah commanders.
Top Israeli officials have threatened to repeat the destruction of Gaza in Lebanon if the Hezbollah fire continues, raising fears that Israel’s actions in Gaza since Oct. 7 would be repeated in Lebanon.
The International Organization for Migration estimated Thursday that more than 200,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon since Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel in support of Hamas after it stormed into Israel, sparking the Israel-Hamas war.
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