(17 Nov 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 17 November 2024
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1. Various of firefighters trying to extinguish flames in building after Israeli strike
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faisal Al Sayegh, Lebanese Member of Parliament:
"This confirms the crimes of the Israeli enemy, and that it wants to negotiate under fire and is expanding and targeting safe and safer areas. This won’t help reach a (goal) in the negotiations, (being) under pressure and under fire will not change the principles and reasoning. There are certain conditions we agreed to. We agreed to (U.N. resolution) 1701 and Speaker (Nabih) Berri is handling negotiations, Prime Minister (Najib) Mikati is also leading these negotiations. We need to hold on to Lebanon’s rights to implement 1701 literally.”
3. Various of firefighters trying to extinguish flames
STORYLINE:
Another Israeli strike hit a computer shop in central Beirut on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 13, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
The shop was in a busy residential neighborhood.
"This confirms the crimes of the Israeli enemy, and that it wants to negotiate under fire and is expanding and targeting safe and safer areas," said Faisal Al Sayegh, a Lebanese Member of Parliament.
Earlier on Sunday, an Israeli strike in central Beirut killed the Hezbollah militant group’s chief spokesman.
Mohammed Afif was killed in a strike on the Arab socialist Baath party’s office in Beirut, according to a Hezbollah official who was not authorized to brief reporters and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Afif had been especially visible after all-out war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah in September.
It was the latest targeted killing of senior Hezbollah officials.
The strikes occurred as Lebanese officials consider a United States-led cease-fire proposal. Israel also bombed several buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has long been headquartered, after warning people to evacuate.
Hezbollah began firing rockets, missiles and drones into Israel the day after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack ignited the war in Gaza. Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes in Lebanon and the conflict steadily escalated.
Israeli forces invaded Lebanon on Oct. 1. On Sunday, Israel’s military said mobile artillery batteries had crossed into Lebanon and began attacking Hezbollah targets, the first time artillery was launched within Lebanese territory.
More than 3,400 people have been killed in Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry, and over 1.2 million driven from their homes. It is not known how many of the dead are Hezbollah fighters.
Hezbollah has fired dozens of projectiles into Israel daily. The attacks have killed at least 76 people, including 31 soldiers, and caused some 60,000 people to flee.
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