2024-09-20 22:25:27
The echoing sound of ambulances does not disturb the peace of passers-by in the southern suburbs of Beirut. It’s Friday afternoon, the best time to do your weekly shopping. Shops are still open. They haven’t, despite the chaos you can sense just a few tens of meters away. There, the ground has swallowed two houses. About a quarter past four in the afternoon, the barricades fell down, and those who were under them and us were taken away. The author acknowledges the moment. “The Israeli army has attacked Beirut,” the Hebrew soldier told X. How? Four drones, four small and precise drones, released the cargo and once again killed Beirut. And again the resignation brought the Lebanese capital. At least a dozen people are already dead, including children, 66 injured, nine in critical condition, and fifteen missing. From heaven, Israel isolated the Mediterranean city for the third time in five days.
“They are the most holy place”, commented a taxi driver to EL PERIÓDICO, before turning up the volume of the radio. “It is history and it is told,” the announcer of the station La veu del Líban admitted. Two days after new attacks against members of Hezbollah by stealing explosives in their search engines and their navigational texts, the Hebrew Army has the real impact of the war in the streets of Beirut. After the most violent night in southern Lebanon since cross-border attacks began on October 8, Israeli forces bombed the southern district of Dahiyeh in Beirut, where Hezbollah has a strong presence and control. So that one of the victims will be the senior leader of Hezbollah, Ibrahim Aqil, as reported by the Israeli Army.
Aqil is a member of the Shiite party’s military council and the highest decision-making body. The US offered a reward of seven million dollars for his head; He was accused of recruiting defenders and participating in the bombing of his embassy in 1983, during the Lebanese Civil War. The Israeli army said that Aqil was a commander of Radwan’s military group, which had not been involved in the war effort, and that it killed him along with the group’s senior officers. “Aqil and other leaders who died – it is believed that there are at least twelve of them – were involved in the organization of the attack on the Golan by Hezbollah, with the targeting of Golan towns and the killing of civilians”, Israel. military alleged, compared its alleged program to the October 7 attack.
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“We are not looking for a major escalation in the area,” Hebrew military officials said the same week they also killed 40 people by detonating explosives planted in their electronic devices. This is the third attack on the Lebanese capital this year. In January, a drone killed Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas leader, in the same area. No civilians were injured then. In late July, Fuad Shukur, a Hezbollah leader and right-hand man of leader Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in a similar attack. Four civilians, two children and two women died in the attack which also injured 80 others. With this new attack, Israel confirms the trend of recent days: its battlefield is Lebanon, not Gaza.
As night falls on the ruins of residential buildings, tension continues to dominate the scene. The soldiers of the Lebanese Army and the supporters of Hezbollah took over the area, controlling the entrances. This newspaper did not allow access to the coverage of the attack, like many other international media outlets. “There are many suspects and everyone is very nervous,” said a military man at the door of a nearby hospital where some of the wounded had arrived.
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