Israel launched an attack on the capital of Lebanon for the first time on Friday, because a cease -the last ended the last Israel-Hezbollah War In November.
Associated Press reporters in Beirut heard a loud tree and witnessed smoke that rose from an area in the southern suburbs of the city that the army of Israel had sworn.
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It marked the first strike of Israel on Beirut, because a ceasefire -the fire last November between it and the Hezbollah -Militant Group was watching, although Israel has since attacked goals in South Libanon in South Libanon.
Israel’s army said it was a Hezbollah -drone storage facility in Dahiyeh, who called it a militant stronghold. The strike came after Israel, which accuses Hezbollah of the use of citizens as human shields, warned residents to evacuate the area.
The beaten area is a residential and commercial area and is close to at least two schools.
Israeli officials said that the attack was retraining for rockets that were said to have fired from Lebanon to the north of Israel. They promised to continue on Beirut, unless The government of Lebanon worked to ensure that such attacks stopped.
“We will not allow to shoot at our communities, not even a ray,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We will attack everywhere in Lebanon, against any threat to the state of Israel.”
A bomb fell from an Israeli Jet Falls before he hit a building in Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Hezbollah denied firing the missiles and accused Israel of looking for a pretext to keep attacking Lebanon.
The government of Lebanon ordered all schools and universities to close in the southern suburb of Beirut van Hadath for the day. Residents were seen the area in cars and on foot for the strike.
Hezbollah started launching missiles, drones and missiles in Israel the day after October 7, 2023, attack on South Israël by his Hamas bondmates ignited the war in Gaza. Palestinian militants Killed around 1,200 in Israel and 251 others kidnapped during the 2023 attack.
The Israel-Hezbollah conflict exploded in the entire war last September when Israel carried out waves of air strikes and killed most senior leaders of the militant group. The fights killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon and displaced around 60,000 Israelis.
Under the ceasefires, Israeli troops had to withdraw from all the Lebanese territory at the end of January. The deadline was expanded until February 18, but Israel remained at five border locations while performing dozens of strikes about what it said that Hezbollah goals were in South and Eastern Libanon. Last week Israeli air strikes killed six people at different locations in Lebanon.
In Paris, the president of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun, said that Beirut’s strike was a continuation “of Israel’s violations of the agreement” sponsored by France and the US
During a joint press conference with Aoun, French President Emmanuel Macron called the attack “unacceptable”, and promised to tackle it with Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump. Macron said the US can put pressure on Israel.
A spokeswoman for the US Department of Foreign Affairs called on the Lebanon government to act.
“Israel defends his people and interests by responding to rocket attacks by terrorists in Lebanon,” said the spokeswoman, Tammy Bruce, Friday. “We expect that Lebanese armed forces will disarm these terrorists to prevent further hostilities.”
The special Coordinator of the UN for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said that the escalation had created a critical period for Lebanon and the wider region ‘.
Israeli strikes in other parts of Lebanon killed three people on Friday and wounded 18, including children and women, in the southern village of Kfar Tibnit, said the Health Minister of Lebanon.
The strikes arrive less than two weeks after Israel stopped -the Fires with Hamas ended with surprise attacks that hundreds of people killed in Gaza. Earlier this month, Israel stopped deliveries of food, fuel, medicines and humanitarian aid to the approximately 2 million Palestinians of Gaza.
Israel has sworn to escalate the war until Hamas 59 hostages returns who still means – 24 of them believed they were alive. Israël demands that the group gives up power, disabled and sends its leaders in exile.
Hamas has said that only the remaining prisoners will release in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a permanent cease -the fire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
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The offensive of Israel in the Strip has killed more than 50,000 people and wounded 114,000, according to the Health Minister of Gaza, which does not say how many citizens or fighters were.
The ministry said on Friday that nearly 900 were killed in Gaza since the cease-fire ended in mid-March, including more than 40 in the last 24 hours.
