Israel Strikes Beirut, Killing 9 Amid Tensions Over Iran Attack

Live updates: Israel strikes central Beirut, killing 9 as region braces for response to Iran attack

BBC news ni As it intensifies its aerial and ground attack, the Israeli military has extended its orders for evacuation in southern Lebanon, extending north of a U.N. buffer zone.

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The army of Lebanon claims that it fired back at Israeli forces for the first time.

Lebanon’s Army announced today it has returned fire at Israel for the first time after IDF forces hit one of its checkpoints in the south and killed a soldier.bbc news ni

bbc news ni On X, it posted, “One of our men was martyred.” It further stated that “the post’s staff responded to the fire’s sources.”

It happened after the army and the Lebanese Red Cross reported on BBC News that while Israeli soldiers were conducting an evacuation and rescue operation in the southern village of Taybeh, one soldier was killed and another injured.

According to the health ministry, Israeli attacks have claimed at least 1,974 lives in Lebanon.

According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, since October 8, 2023, 1,974 people have died as a result of Israeli airstrikes in the nation.

bbc news ni 9,375 people have been hurt, the health ministry reported Thursday, with 107 children and 202 women among them.

For almost a year, the Israeli military and Hezbollah have been exchanging cross-border gunfire, but in recent weeks, as Israel has escalated its operations, the number of fatalities has increased.

 

A fresh round of Israeli airstrikes is covered by Top News from Beirut.

The most recent information on the recent round of Israeli strikes in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, and the direct combat clashes between the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah.

Lebanese officials claim that the leader of Hezbollah consented to a cease-fire days before Israel assassinated him.

Days before he was assassinated by an Israeli strike, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah reportedly consented to a 21-day cease-fire with Israel, according to two top Lebanese officials.

The interim ceasefire was offered by the U.S., France and other allies last week.

bbc news ni Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour yesterday, “They [the US and France] told us that Mr. Netanyahu agreed on this and so we also got the consent of Hezbollah on that and you know what occurred since then.”

The nation’s envoy to the United Kingdom also stated as much this morning.

“Hezbollah endorsed the unified statement that was released, which called for a 21-day cease-fire and did so right away after initiating efforts to find a diplomatic resolution within the framework of the

Videos seem to show IDF forces pulling wounded people out of southern Lebanon.

Videos purport to depict IDF helicopters and Israeli soldiers engaged in ground combat in southern Lebanon.

In one video, IDF helicopters are seen landing in the Kfar Gil’adi region, and it looks like a casualty evacuation procedure is in progress. Yesterday, the video went viral following the IDF’s announcement of eight soldier deaths and numerous injuries.

An analyst calls the deaths of soldiers in Lebanon a “wake-up call” for Israel.

The killing of eight Israeli troops during the military’s invasion of southern Lebanon would likely be a “wake-up call” for Israel as it takes stock of the success of its attack, a security analyst told Top News.

Regional security analyst Mahdi Ghuloom of Le Beck International stated that Israel will have expected some deaths in its ground offensive into an area that Hezbollah will undoubtedly know well. But he said that “familiarity with the region is rising based on intelligence gathered from these raids,” given the IDF’s claims to have been quietly conducting cross-border raids for months before announcing combat operations.

However, the loss of eight soldiers in a short period of time “is definitely a wake-up call,” according to Ghuloom.

Israel gets ready to respond to Iran’s historic missile strike.

According to relief organizations, Israel’s assault in the Gaza Strip has killed more women and children in the last year than any other battle in the previous 20 years. Oxfam and Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) have provided conservative estimates of the number of women and children killed in Gaza throughout the past 12 months, with over 6,000 estimated deaths. Both of the values are higher than what is seen in the current records, in comparison. The latest analysis, which cited earlier reports, stated that although an average of more than 4,700 children perished in the Syria conflict, the largest number of women killed in a single year of combat was over 2,600 in Iraq in 2016.

 

After a night of strikes in Beirut, one woman remarks, “It was a nightmare.”

The thunder of Israeli attacks reverberated into the early hours of the next day, causing at least nine fatalities and numerous injuries in central Beirut. It was another restless night for many in Lebanon. bbc news ni:

bbc news ni Hiam Khoury, 50, who resides in Hadath, a municipality in the Baabda District, around 4 miles south of Beirut, described the experience as “a nightmare.” “We had no sleep. Even if the bombing stops, how can you do it?” she asked Top News.

Khoury claimed that the sound of a hit awakened her up at about two in the morning. “Everything shook. We, the house.” She claimed that “waking up in the middle of the night” and “staying up, traumatized” had become the everyday norm.

“We tidy up in the morning.

Families lament the death of an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon

bbc news ni Friends and family pay their respects at the burial of Israeli soldier Eitan Itzhak Oster, who was killed yesterday during combat with Hezbollah. One day after Israel invaded southern Lebanon, the IDF declared that eight of its soldiers had died.