(22 Oct 2024)
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Beirut – 22 October 2024
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There were more Israeli strikes on Beirut overnight into Tuesday after Israel said hours earlier that it planned to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution.
At least 15 branches of Al-Qard Al-Hasan, which Israel says uses customers’ deposits to finance attacks against Israel, were hit late Sunday in the southern neighbourhoods of Beirut, across southern Lebanon and in the eastern Bekaa Valley, where Hezbollah has a strong presence.
One strike flattened a nine-story building in Beirut with a branch inside it.
The Israeli military issued evacuation warnings ahead of the strikes, and there were no reports of casualties.
The Associated Press journalists witnessed strikes late on Monday in the coastal region of Ouzai, near Beirut’s airport, and Lebanon’s Health Ministry said an airstrike near Beirut’s largest public hospital killed four, including a child, and wounded 24. It was the first strike on the Lebanese capital in 10 days.
Israeli ground forces invaded Lebanon earlier this month. The military said it aims to push Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon so that tens of thousands of Israelis can return to their homes nearby after more than a year of cross-border rocket and drone attacks. Israeli airstrikes have pounded large areas of Lebanon for weeks, forcing over a million people to flee their homes.
Hezbollah has been launching rockets into Israel nearly every day since Hamas’ deadly raid into Israel last year that sparked the war in Gaza.
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