Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon on Friday.
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Like Aviv, Israel-The Israeli army launched a strike on the suburbs of Beirut on Friday, the first time she hit the capital of Lebanon since she reached a cease-fire in November 2024 with the militant group Hezbollah.
Israel said he was aiming for a building in the suburbs of Dahiyeh used by Hezbollah to store drones, After the rockets early in the morning, rockets were taken from southern Lebanon to northern Israel.
The Lebanese militant group supported by Iran denied Friday, as well as a previous attack on March 22, and said it was attached to the ceasefire. No other group has claimed responsibility.
“We will not allow any fire on our communities, not even a net,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. “We will continue to apply the ceasefire forcefully, to strike anywhere in Lebanon against any threat to the State of Israel and to make sure that all our North residents return home safely.”
The firefighters inspect the region after a strike from the Israeli army in the suburbs of Dahiyeh, Lebanon on Friday.
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The Israeli army warned the residents to evacuate Dahiyeh, in particular the Hadath district, before the strike, showing a map with the location of the target.
Between the evacuation warning and the attack, Umm Abbas, 60, told NPR by phone of Hadath: “There is panic. There are two schools nearby filled with children. People cry on the left and right, people cry.”
Soon, new images have shown that smoke plumes rising from the southern suburbs of Beirut.
There was no immediate relationship of victims there. Lebanese officials reported that 18 people killed in southern Lebanon by Israeli drones, air strikes and artistic strikes during last week.
The United Nations Soldiers of Peace say they said that they have collected thousands of ceasefire violations, most of them by Israel.
The fighting comes after Israel has broken a separate ceasefire with Hamas, renewing its military offensive in the Gaza Strip which started after the attack led by October 7, 2023, against Israel.
Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, who visited Paris at the time, said the “strong conviction” of the government of the return of Israeli strikes and any “malicious attempt to bring Lebanon back to the cycle of violence”. He said it increased the determination of Lebanon “to build our state and our army”.
French president Emmanuel Macron said that strikes were a “violation of the ceasefire agreement” and that they “play in the hands of Hezbollah”. He called on Israeli forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon and allow the Lebanon army to deploy there and return from civilians.
Alex Leff reported Tel Aviv, Lauren Frayer and Jawad Rizkallah from Damascus. Yanal Jabarin contributed to the reports of Jerusalem.
