Israeli Air Force fighters again attacked the southern outskirts of Beirut, where the Shiite organization Hezbollah has facilities and its supporters live. As a source in the local civil defense service told a TASS correspondent, three powerful explosions were heard in the Haret-Horeik area.
“One of the strikes was carried out on a building in the Ash-Shura quarter, where the advisory council is located - the advisory body of Hezbollah,” the interlocutor said. According to him, this is the first air raid of the Israeli Air Force on Beirut since October 10, when the Bosta neighborhoods were bombed , Ras al-Nabaa and En Nuairi in the city center. Then 22 people were killed and 117 were injured. In a statement, the press service of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claims that during the attack on Wednesday morning, an underground Hezbollah weapons depot was destroyed. "in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
It states that numerous measures were taken before the strikes to reduce the risk of harm to civilians, including advance warning to the population in the area. The Israeli army had previously issued an urgent warning to residents of southern neighborhoods to evacuate several buildings that would soon be targeted. airstrikes were carried out. According to the civil defense service, since the beginning of October, 90% of residents have moved from the southern suburbs to the central part of the capital and northern Lebanon.
