The Israeli army issued warnings to residents of several neighborhoods to evacuate.
An Israeli airstrike in the mountains east of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday claimed five lives, local authorities reported. According to the AFP agency, an unnamed security source previously said that a house in which displaced persons, including women and children, were hiding, was hit, writes TASR.
“The Israeli enemy attack killed five people,” the Lebanese Ministry of Health said in a statement. The Lebanese News Agency said the strike hit a house east of Beirut between the towns of Baalshami and Zhur al-Abadiyya.
Call for evacuation
The Israeli army launched at least ten airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday morning. Shortly before, it issued warnings to residents of several neighborhoods to evacuate from this bastion of the militant Hezbollah movement.
According to the army, residents in the north of Israel had to hide in shelters because attack drones were launched from Lebanon. One of them hit the yard of a kindergarten on the outskirts of Haifa, according to rescuers, no one was injured. TV footage showed damage to the building.
Since September 23, Israeli forces have intensified the bombing of Lebanon, primarily targeting Hezbollah strongholds in the east, south of the country and the southern suburbs of the metropolis. A week later, Tel Aviv also sent its ground troops to Lebanon.
The escalation comes after nearly a year of cross-border shelling launched by Hezbollah in declared solidarity with Hamas a day after the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack by Palestinian militants in southern Israel that sparked the Gaza war.
The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has so far claimed at least 3,240 lives in Lebanon, with most of them dead since the end of September, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
