(24 News) After turning Gaza into a pile of rubble, Israel has now turned to Lebanon, and the attacks that have been going on for the past two weeks have intensified.
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, at least 18 people were killed and 92 injured in the attacks on the capital Beirut this evening. Israel has been targeting the suburbs of southern Beirut for more than two weeks. But none of them were in urban areas, but now for the first time, Israel has directly targeted Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said the attacks hit the densely populated neighborhoods of Neveri and Basta, “in Beirut, the first attack hit the third floor of an eight-story building in the Neveri area,” and others The attack “targeted a four-story building in Al-Basta al-Fuqa, which completely collapsed,” an AFP photographer at the site of the strike in the Basta area said, adding that two old buildings had collapsed, while nearby The windows of the houses were blown away by the explosion.
Members of the Civil Defense and local residents were trying to pull survivors from the mountain of debris, some of them carried on stretchers, as firefighters worked to put out a fire in a “residential building” in the Newari area. While residents were being evacuated from upper floors using ladders, Israel launched a deadly airstrike in Beirut earlier this month, targeting an emergency services rescue facility run by Hezbollah. Gaya, in which seven workers were martyred.
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