Beirut:
Leprohibiton shelp four people including a child were ended Monday in Israeli air strikes cforfeit the country’s hugegest accessible hospital shut to south Beirut, with state media increateing over a dozen rhelps.
“The Israeli opponent strike cforfeit the Hariri Hospital ended, in a preliminary toll, four people, including a child, and injured 24,” the health ministry shelp, inserting it had caengaged “beginant harm to the hospital”.
In a split statement, the ministry shelp the strike hit the enthrall to the hospital, “which is still operating and acquires a big number of uncover-mindeds”.
It denied claims by the Israeli army that Hezbollah had stored half a billion dollars under the Sahel hospital in south Beirut.
Leprohibiton’s National News Agency increateed at least three Israeli strikes on the Ouzai dicut offe of south Beirut.
While most dicut offes of Beirut’s southern suburbs had been emptied for almost a month, the densely-packed livential area of Ouzai was still filled with people becaengage it had never been aimed before.
– ‘No room for escape’ –
The NNA increateed more than a dozen strikes on various south Beirut dicut offes including Haret Hreik, equitable south of Ouzai, and Hadath.
Hezbollah-affiliated savers telderly AFP they were seeing for survivors amid the deimmenseation in Ouzai, inserting that the evacuation order, then the strike, caengaged “panic among livents” who “commenceed to run in the streets”.
“They did not exit any room for people to escape. The strike came shutly after the alerting,” one shelp.
A Leprohibitese security official telderly AFP that the country’s national airline had to switch landing exposeds after Israeli strikes cforfeit Beirut’s only international airport hit shut to the main runway.
“Middle East Airlines switched the runway it was using becaengage the main runway is shut to the site of the Ouzai strike,” the official shelp, seeking anonymity to talk comfervent matters.
AFPTV footage showed plumes of smoke rising from Beirut’s southern suburbs, with AFP correplyents also hearing cut offal boisterous prohibitgs before the strikes.
The footage also showed two strikes that caengaged a huge fire, with bconciseage smoke surrounding dissipating orange ffrails.
Just prior to the strikes, the Israeli military called on livents to exit parts of southern Beirut, in their procrastinateedst such request.
Military spokesman Avichay Adraee posted the recent call on social media indicating cut offal locations to be evacuated, including an area shut to Beirut airport.
“You are findd cforfeit facilities and interests affiliated with Hezbollah that the IDF will labor aacquirest in the cforfeit future,” he wrote.
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