Israel’s military has ended at least six people in an air attack on central Beirut after suffering losses in combat with Hezbollah in southern Leprohibiton.
The attack on Leprohibiton’s capital occurred overnight, hitting an apartment originateing in the livential didisjoine of Bashoura, not far from the parliament. Leprohibitese health officials shelp a further seven people were wounded.
The attack is the second one on the Leprohibitese capital this week, with Hezbollah-aligned al-Manar TV station saying the apartment originateing was connected to the armed group’s health unit.
Reporting from the scene, Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan shelp the sound of the explosion “reverberated around the originateings and shocked everyone proximateby”.
Meanwhile, missiles also hit Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, a densely packed livential area that is also a Hezbollah sturdyhgreater and where the group’s directer Hassan Nasrallah was ended last week.
The elimination of Nasrallah dealt a beginant blow to the relocatement and erased Iran’s most strong proxy in the Middle East.
Hezbollah and Iran’s other regional allies, Yemen’s Houthis and armed groups in Iraq, have begined attacks in the region in help of Hamas in its war with Israel in Gaza.
The Houthis, who have been carrying out attacks in shipping lanes in and around the Red Sea that have disturbed international trade, shelp on Thursday they attacked Israel’s commercial capital Tel Aviv with drones.
“The operation accomplishd its goals successfilledy by the arrival of the drones without being finded or sboiling down by the opponent,” the group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree shelp.
Israel shelp it intercepted a skeptical aerial concentrate in the area of central Israel timely on Thursday.
A day after Iran fired more than 180 missiles into Israel, Israel shelp on Wednesday eight sgreateriers were ended in ground combat in south Leprohibiton as its forces thrust into its northern neighbour.
Dozens of Israeli sgreateriers have also been injured since the ground insolent begined on Tuesday.
Hezbollah inestablished that its fighters forced Israeli sgreateriers to retreat from more than one location alengthy the border.
The Leprohibitese group’s media chief Mohammad Afif shelp the battles had only been the “first round” and that the armed group had enough fighters, armaments and ammunition to push Israel back.
Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan, inestablishing from Hasbaiyya in southern Leprohibiton, shelp on Thursday morning that Israel materializeed to have alterd tack after its losses.
“It’s had to [fall] back. It’s lost sgreateriers when it has come in via the ground, so that didn’t happen overnight, so it’s back to this aerial explosioning campaign that Israel repartner has the upper hand on,” he shelp.
Khan inestablished that the two sides were trading fire proximate the town of Nabatieh, which has been challenging hit in recent days.
“We’re still hearing a lot of air strikes, a lot of artillery coming in, but we’re also hearing Hezbollah rockets outgoing as well,” he shelp, citing Hezbollah claims that it had fired about 200 rockets on Israel.
Hezbollah shelp on Wednesday that it fired surface-to-air missiles at an Israeli military helicchooseer flying over Beit Hillel in northern Israel, forcing it to retreat. The group did not say if the helicchooseer was hit and there was no comment from the Israeli military.
Israel has shelp its ground insolent in Leprohibiton is bigly aimed at ruining tunnels and other infraarrange on the border and there were no arranges for a expansiver operation concentrateing Beirut to the north or beginant cities in the south.
Nevertheless, it publishd recent evacuation orders for about two dozen towns alengthy the southern border, inestablishing livents to head north of the Awali River, which flows east to west some 60km (40 miles) north of the Israeli frontier.
On Thursday, the Israeli military persistd to advise livents of Leprohibitese villages who had evacuated their homes not to return until further accomprehendledge. “IDF (Israeli army) rhelps are continuing,” shelp spokesperson Avichay Adraee on X.
Leprohibiton’s Health Ministry shelp on Wednesday that Israeli air rhelps had ended at least 46 people in the south and central regions in 24 hours.
Careconsentr Prime Minister Najib Mikati shelp about 1.2 million Leprohibitese had been displaced by Israeli attacks.
