Latest on Israeli crimes in Lebanon
Israel has launched fresh airstrikes in southern Beirut, targeting Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters. The latest attack comes after a strike in central Beirut — the first time Israel has struck the area since 2006 — killed at least nine people early on Thursday.
• Israel issued evacuation orders for additional villages in southern Lebanon, signaling a broadening of its ground incursion in the country. More than 1,000 people in Lebanon have been killed and about 1 million residents displaced since Israel escalated its war with Hezbollah.
• Israel’s war cabinet is weighing its response after Iran launched its largest-ever attack on the country this week. Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon told CNN that retaliation “will be soon.”
• Iran’s military chief has warned of broader strikes if Israel responds. US President Joe Biden said he does not support a potential Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites.
40 firefighters and ambulance workers killed in Lebanon over past 3 days, health minister says
Forty ambulance and firefighting staff have been killed in the past three days across Lebanon, Health Minister Firass Abiad said Thursday.
Abiad said 97 paramedics and firefighters in the country have been killed by Israeli strikes since October 8 last year, as the death toll across the country from the same date climbed to 1,974, of whom 127 are children and 261 are women.
Overnight, seven medics working for Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Authority were killed by an Israeli strike on central Beirut.
“We know that there are international laws protecting medical institutions, ambulances and health care workers,” the health minister said.
Israel says it struck Hezbollah intelligence headquarters in Beirut
Israel’s military says its air force struck Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut on Thursday.
“The Intelligence Corps is Hezbollah’s primary intelligence body and is responsible for aggregating intelligence about the IDF and the State of Israel,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
Earlier, Hezbollah told reporters its media office was targeted in strikes in southern Beirut.
3 Israeli airstrikes target southern Beirut, Lebanese state media reports
Three Israeli airstrikes struck the southern suburbs of Beirut Thursday afternoon local time, “one of which targeted (the neighborhood of) Haret Hreik,” Lebanese state media NNA reports.
Hezbollah announced shortly after the blasts that its media office was targeted, on a WhatsApp group it shares with reporters.
Several large blasts were heard by CNN teams in west Beirut.
CNN teams there saw large plumes of smoke rising from the southern suburbs of the city, and are hearing the sound of drones in the skies overhead.
Lebanese soldier killed during rescue mission, army says
A Lebanese soldier was killed while carrying out a rescue and evacuation mission with the country’s Red Cross on Thursday, the Lebanese army said.
The soldier was killed and another was injured during the operation in the southern town of Taybeh.
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