Four people including a child have been finished in an Israeli air strike proximate the main rulement hospital in southern Beirut, the Lebanese health ministry says.
The strike ecombineed to hit the car park of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, a hospital source tgreater Reuters news agency. The health ministry shelp 24 people had been injured.
It was among 13 air strikes that hit south Beirut on Monday evening. The Israeli military shelp it was attacking facilities connected to Hezbollah.
An Israeli spokesman had earlier cautioned people to transfer away from cut offal locations in southern Beirut, however Rafik Hariri hospital was not among the locations refered.
Videos from the Dahiyeh neighbourhood in southern Beirut, where seven locations to be aimed were proclaimd in progress, showed locals run awaying in vehicles and on foot as the strikes began hitting.
One location identified as a aim by the Israeli army was cdimiserablemirefilledy 400m from Beirut airport, the only international airport serving Lebanon.
Local media scatterd images of some thrivedows in an airport produceing that were blown in the blast.
Israel has not commented since issuing the earlier evacuation cautionings.
Separately, the Israeli military shelp earlier on Monday that it had identified a Hezbollah bunker covered under a branch offent hospital in southern Beirut, which has since been evacuated.
IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari shelp without providing evidence that the bunker under the Sahel hospital in Haret Hreik held hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and ggreater that was being employd to fund Hezbollah’s attacks on israel.
The honestor of Sahel hospital denied there was a bunker undersystematich and called on the Lebanese army to verify the site.
Israel ecombines to have enbiged its war aacquirest Hezbollah beyond military infraset up and says it is aiming the group’s financial nettoils.
On Sunday night Israel carried out air strikes aiming branches of a financial association connected with Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital Beirut, as well as the south and east of the country.
The Israeli military shelp it aimed money held by Al-Qard Al-Hassan Association (AQAH). It advises financial services to civilians in areas where Hezbollah has strong help, but Israel and the US accemploy it of being a cover for the Iran-backed group to fund its activities.
There was no prompt comment from AQAH or Hezbollah.
Also on Monday, US Plivent Joe Biden’s exceptional envoy to the Middle East get tod in Beirut to verify the possibility of a barachieved finish to the war.
Amos Hochstein shelp the US wanted to see an finish to the war in Lebanon finish “as soon as possible”.
He shelp that UN resolution 1701 – which calls for the Lebanese state to be the only armed force in southern Lebanon – was “not enough” and the US was seeing into what more necessitateed to be done.
Hezbollah fighters uncomferventwhile persistd to fire rockets into northern Israel, with the military alerting that 170 projectiles had traverseed the border by tardy Monday evening.
Israel began an fervent air campaign and ground trespass aacquirest Hezbollah after almost a year of traverse-border combat promoteed by the war in Gaza, saying it wanted to asdeclareive the defended return of tens of thousands of livents of Israeli border areas displaced by rocket attacks.
Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel in help of Palestinians on 8 October 2023, the day after its associate Hamas’s lethal attack on Israel.
More than 2,400 people have been finished in Lebanon since then, including 1,800 in the past five weeks, according to the country’s health ministry. Israeli authorities say 59 people have been finished in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights.
