(26 Nov 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon – 26 November 2024
1. Various of explosions and multiple columns of smoke rising over Beirut’s skyline
2. Various of smoke plume rising into the sky
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Tyre, Lebanon – 26 November 2024
3. Various of smoke rising (starting from 2:40)
STORYLINE:
Israeli warplanes struck central Beirut and the city’s southern suburbs on Tuesday, raising palls of smoke over the Lebanese capital.
This comes ahead of a planned vote by Israel’s leadership on whether to accept a U.S.-brokered ceasefire aimed at ending more than a year of fighting with Hezbollah.
The Israeli military also issued warnings for 20 more buildings in Beirut’s suburbs to evacuate before they too were struck — a sign it was aiming to inflict punishment on Hezbollah down to the last moments before any ceasefire takes hold.
Israeli ground troops also reached parts of Lebanon’s Litani River for the first time in the conflict— a focal point of the emerging ceasefire.
A ceasefire was still not a sure thing, but Israel’s security Cabinet, meeting Tuesday afternoon, was expected to approve the U.S.-backed proposal.
Lebanese officials have said Hezbollah also supports the deal.
If approved by all sides, the deal would be a major step towards ending the Israel-Hezbollah war that has inflamed tensions across the region and raised fears of an even wider conflict between Israel and Hezbollah’s patron, Iran.
Hezbollah began firing into northern Israel, saying it was showing support for the Palestinians, a day after Hamas carried out its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, triggering the Gaza war.
Israel returned fire on Hezbollah, and the two sides have been exchanging barrages ever since.
In early September, Israel escalated its campaign of bombardment and sent troops into Lebanon, vowing to put an end to Hezbollah fire.
More than 3,760 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon the past 13 months, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials.
The bombardment has driven 1.2 million people from their homes.
Israel says it has killed more than 2,000 Hezbollah members.
Hezbollah fire has forced some 50,000 Israelis to evacuate homes in the country’s north, and its rockets have reached as far south in Israel as Tel Aviv.
At least 75 people have been killed, more than half of them civilians.
More than 50 Israeli soldiers died fighting in the ground offensive in Lebanon.
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