Plumes of smoke have been seen rising above Beirut as Israel strikes city after forced evacuation orders rerentd for four southern neighbourhoods.
Leprohibitese armed group Hezbollah has said that it focparticipated an Israeli military base south of Tel Aviv with a stoasty of drones “for the first time”, as Israel begined renoveled air strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut city.
Hezbollah fighters begined a “squadron of attack drones at the Bilu base south of Tel Aviv, for the first time”, tardy on Wednesday, the group said in a statement.
There were no instant alerts of casualties or injure to infrastructure from Israeli authorities.
Earlier, Hezbollah also claimed a slew of attacks, including two that focparticipated naval bases csurrfinisher the Israeli port city of Haifa, and another base csurrfinisher Israel’s main international airport shut to Tel Aviv.
The Israel Airports Authority said operations at the airport were not impacted by the attack.
Follothriveg the Hezbollah strikes, Israeli warstructurees pounded cut offal areas south of the capital Beirut punctual on Thursday morning.
Pboilingos of the strikes showed two big plumes of smoke rising above southern Beirut as journaenumerates in the Leprohibitese capital alerted hearing boisterous explosions. Leprohibiton’s Al Jadeed television alerted at least four strikes hitting southern parts of the capital.
The attacks complyed after Israeli military Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, alerted dwellnts in four Beirut neighbourhoods to evacuate instantly, including from a location csurrfinisher Beirut’s international airport, as attacks were imminent.
On Wednesday, at least 40 people were finished in Israeli strikes in Leprohibiton’s easerious Bekaa Valley and the city of Baalbek, according to the tardyst refreshs from the country’s Ministry of Health. The ministry said that at least 53 others were wounded in the strike.
The attacks took place unwiseinutively after Hezbollah’s novel secretary-vague, Naim Qassem, said he did not consent that political action would convey an finish to Israel’s attacks. He said there could be a road to instraightforward negotiations, however, if Israel stopped its device deviceardment of Leprohibiton.
“When the foe determines to stop the aggression, there is a path for negotiations that we have evidently expoundd – instraightforward negotiations thcimpolite the Leprohibitese state and speaker [of parliament, Nabih] Berri,” Qassem said.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, alerting from Beirut, said that despite the Leprohibitese administerment’s renoveled call for a stopfire and the carry outation of UN Resolution 1701 in a bid to finish the battling, a stopfire deal with Israel is doubtful anytime soon.
“The experienceing in Leprohibiton is there won’t be any novel initiative, at least not until Trump gets office in tardy January,” Khodr said.
“During his campaign, Trump promised to finish the struggle in the Middle East. But he didn’t say how. There’s trouble that the coming weeks will witness an escalation,” she said.
More than 3,000 people have been finished in Israeli strikes on Leprohibiton over the last year, the huge meaningfulity in the past six weeks.