(20 Sep 2024)
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Beirut - 20 September 2024
1. Various skyline shots of Beirut
STORYLINE:
An Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday killed at least three people and wounded more than a dozen others, Lebanese health officials said, in the first Israeli attack on the Lebanese capital in months that came after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with rockets.
Israel announced the strike, but didn't immediately specify the target in Beirut's crowded southern suburbs, where Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group holds sway.
Lebanon's Health Ministry reported that at least three people were killed and 17 others wounded.
The strike in Dahiyeh, just kilometers from downtown Beirut, hit during rush hour, as people were leaving work and students headed home from school.
The escalation came as the region awaited the revenge promised by the militant group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, for this week’s mass bombing attack on pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah members.
The sophisticated attacks have heightened fears that the cross-border exchanges of fire will escalate into all-out war.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the attacks.
In recent days, Israel has moved a powerful fighting force up to the northern border, officials have escalated their rhetoric, and the country’s security Cabinet has designated the return of tens of thousands of displaced residents to their homes in northern Israel an official war goal.
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