(23 Nov 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 23 November 2024
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STORYLINE:
Israeli airstrikes Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured dozens in central Beirut, as diplomats scrambled to broker a cease-fire.
Lebanon’s civil defense said the death toll was provisional as emergency responders were still digging through the rubble looking for survivors.
The strikes were the fourth on the Lebanese capital in less than a week.
The escalation comes after U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein traveled to the region this week in an attempt to broker a cease-fire deal to end the more than 13 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, which has erupted into full-on war in the past two months.
Israeli bombardment has killed more than 3,500 people in Lebanon and wounded more than 15,000, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
It has displaced about 1.2 million, or a quarter of Lebanon’s population. On the Israeli side, about 90 soldiers and nearly 50 civilians have been killed by rockets, drones and missiles in northern Israel and in fighting in Lebanon.
The strikes occurred at 4 a.m. local time, destroying an eight-story building and leaving a crater in the ground.
The strikes came a day after heavy bombardment of Beirut’s southern suburbs and as heavy ground fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants continues in southern Lebanon, with Israeli troops pushing farther from the border.
Israel’s military did not issue a warning for residents to evacuate prior to the strikes in central Beirut.
The army said in a statement Saturday, that over the past day it had conducted intelligence-based strikes on Hezbollah targets in Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs, including on several command centers and weapons storage facilities.
The army said prior to the strikes it issued advance warnings to civilians in the area.
The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting another 250.
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