Hundreds of families fled urgently on Friday night, Saturday, from the southern suburb of Beirut, to the impact of successive Israeli raids, the heaviest bombing in nearly 20 years, and after the Israeli army issued a warning to the residents of some neighborhoods of the suburb to evacuate, many Beirut streets witnessed traffic congestion at a time when most… It is completely empty and dark due to a power outage.
CNN monitored successive waves of population displacement, as people rushed from their homes in search of safety, heading towards areas that were not affected by the raids.
The majority of the displaced settled along the Marine Corniche, which extends along the coast in the western parts of Beirut, an area that remains untouched by bombing, making it a temporary refuge for those fleeing danger zones.
While the Israeli army was launching successive violent raids that lit up the skies of the southern suburb, men, women and children gathered in Martyrs’ Square in the center of the capital, as well as on the Ain al-Marisseh Corniche, where they spread out on the ground, with worry written on their faces.
The Israeli army announced shortly before midnight local time that it would bomb three buildings in the southern suburb of Beirut, in which Hezbollah was accused of storing weapons, and ordered residents to evacuate them. Hezbollah later denied the existence of weapons stores in residential buildings, describing Israel’s “claims” as “false.”
Later, today, Saturday, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced its intention to evacuate hospitals in the southern suburb of Beirut, due to unprecedented raids that the suburb has not witnessed since the July 2006 war.
The Ministry said, in a statement, that it calls on hospitals in Beirut, Mount Lebanon, and areas not affected by the Israeli aggression to stop receiving non-emergency cases until the end of next week.
The Ministry attributed this call to making room for receiving patients in the hospitals of the southern suburb of Beirut, which will be evacuated due to developments in the aggression.
The Ministry called on hospitals and health centers to “be prepared to care for sick people displaced last night from the southern suburbs.”
At dawn on Saturday, Israeli fighters launched a series of violent and successive raids on buildings in various areas of the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, hours after they announced the targeting of Hezbollah’s central leadership and the party’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah.
Israeli warplanes launched more than 40 raids – during the evening of last Friday and at dawn today – on buildings in the areas of Burj Al-Barajneh, Al-Kafaat, Choueifat, Hadath and Al-Layliki in the southern suburb of Beirut, causing fires and massive destruction in several sites and buildings.
The violent raids carried out by Israel on Friday afternoon resulted in at least six dead and 91 wounded, according to an infinite toll from the Lebanese Ministry of Health, while relief teams were still searching among the rubble due to raids on its surroundings. Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV indicated that these raids led to the destruction of seven buildings in the targeted location.
Hezbollah has not issued any comment so far regarding Nasrallah’s fate.
Last updated: September 28, 2024 – 10:18
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