After the massive attack launched on October 1 by Iran against Israel using ballistic missiles and Israel’s promise of retaliation, the Israeli army continues to confront Hezbollah fighters in the border area. Eight Israeli soldiers were killed there on Wednesday. Air raids also continue against the bases of the pro-Iranian Shiite movement in Beirut.
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► The Israeli army announces have deployed additional infantry and armor units in the south of Lebanon. The Israeli military says the army’s 36th Armored Division, which includes the Golani Brigade, the 188th Armored Brigade and the Etzioni Brigade, joined the ground incursion. Israel has so far reported eight dead among his soldiers on Lebanese territory.
► After the massive missile attack launched by Iran on October 1 against Israel, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said “ persona non grata » in Israel, denounces the “ sickening cycle » violence by calling for a ceasefire. At an emergency Security Council meeting in New York, China and other countries also expressed concern over the escalation in the Middle East. American President Joe Biden said he was opposed to Israeli strikes against Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities.
► Israeli bombings on Beirut continued during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. Six people died this Thursday during a strike on a Hezbollah relief center in the heart of the Lebanese capital.
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4:00 a.m.: Israeli bombing of an aid center kills six in the heart of Beirut
Six people were killed in an Israeli bombing which targeted a Hezbollah relief center in the heart of Beirut overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health and a source close to the Lebanese Islamist movement. The raid made “ two died instantly ” And “ death toll climbed to six after four injured succumbed to their injuries “, indicated the ministry. Seven other injured people were transferred to hospitals, this source added.
An official from the Shiite movement’s rescue organization told AFP that the raid ” had targeted the civil protection center of the authority » in the Bachoura district, in the center of the capital.
This is the second Israeli strike targeting the heart of the Lebanese capital since the start of the conflict between the pro-Iranian Islamist movement and Israel on October 8, 2023. It targeted the capital more centrally this time, after an Israeli strike that killed three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a left-wing secular Palestinian organization on Monday in the Cola neighborhood.