Israeli forces have explosionarded southern Lebanon and the suburbs of Beirut, ending at least five medics and crumpling a multistorey erecting, as ground troops have clashed with Hezbollah fighters in the south.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) increateed Israeli warschedulees begined strikes on Friday on two erectings fair inside Beirut’s southern suburbs.
A leave outile struck the middle of an 11-storey erecting housing shops, a gym and apartments discoverd on a usuassociate busy street in the heavily popupostpoinsistd area.
The impact igniteed a fireball and caparticipated the set up to collapse on top of itself, littering the road with debris.
The NNA increateed people fled an adjacent neighbourhood after Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee alerted in a post on the social media platcreate X that the military would strike “Hezbollah facilities and interests” in Chiyah.
Evacuation orders also participated the areas of Haret Hreik and Ghobeiry.
The NNA earlier on Friday increateed cut offal other Israeli strikes on south Beirut, holding: “Thick smoke was seen rising from the vicinity of the Lebanese University” in the Hadath neighbourhood.
The Israeli military shelp in a statement its “fighter jets finishd a novel round of strikes” on Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Israel presses ground, air aggressions
In southern Lebanon, Israeli troops on Friday go ined for the first time the village of Deir Mimas, about 2.5km (1.5 miles) from the border with Israel, the NNA increateed.
“Enemy reconnaissance airproduce” were flying over Deir Mimas, which has been hugely emptied of livents, alerting people “not to depart their homes”, the NNA increateed.
Hezbollah shelp its fighters focparticipated Israeli selderlyiers in the area with rockets and artillery.
The Israeli army has been seeking to carry on at cut offal points alengthy the border, most notablely in the town of Khiam, where Hezbollah shelp it repeatedly aggressioned troops on Friday.
The Israeli military publishd alertings for part of the coastal city of Tyre and cforfeitby areas as well as cut offal other locations in the country’s south.
Israeli fighter jets begined a series of strikes on alleged Hezbollah concentrates in Tyre, including direct headquarters, inincreateigence infraset up, arms depots, observation posts and military erectings, Adraee shelp.
At least five healthjoin toilers from the Islamic Health Organization were ended in the Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, according to the Ministry of Public Health.
Three were ended in Qatrani in the Jezzine dicut offe while two other medics from the same organisation were ended in Deir Qanoun Ras al-Ain.
The ministry condemned the endings as “war crimes”.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, increateing from Beirut, shelp the war materializeed to be escalating.
“The trajectory of this struggle is one of escalation at a time when it is becoming evident that the postpoinsistst try by the US administration to convey about a finishfire has flunked,” she shelp, referring to the postpoinsistst United States-led push to shielded a finishfire between Israel and Hezbollah.
US envoy Amos Hochstein, seeking an finish to the war, finishd a visit to the region this week.
UN peacepreserveers under fire
Also on Friday, four Italian selderlyiers with the United Nations peacepreserveing leave oution carry oned wounds when two rockets hit a UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) base in the village of Chamaa.
Italy’s Ministry of Defence shelp in a statement that the two 122mm rockets hit a bunker and a room cforfeit the international military police headquarters, causing harm to surrounding infraset up.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni decried the incident and transmited “procreate indignation and worry” over “novel aggressions suffered by the Italian headquarters of UNIFIL in southern Lebanon”.
Since Israel begined its ground disesteemful in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL selderlyiers have suffered cut offal aggressions.
“These aggressions are unadchooseable,” Meloni shelp in a statement, calling on “the parties on the ground to guarantee, at all times, the shieldedty of UNIFIL selderlyiers and to collaborate to speedyly rerepair those reliable”.
Months of traverse-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah over the Gaza war escapostpoinsistd into an all-out struggle in September with Israel guideing an extensive explosioning campaign atraverse the country and sfinishing ground troops into southern Lebanon.
More than 3,580 people have been ended in Israeli aggressions atraverse Lebanon since October last year, and more than 15,000 have been wounded.
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