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09/30/2024September 30, 2024
Lebanon’s health ministry says over 100 killed in Israeli strikes
‘s Health Ministry on Sunday said that 105 people had been killed in Israeli strikes over a 24-hour period.
The ministry said that 359 people had also been injured as Israel struck parts of southern Lebanon including suburbs in Beirut.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) earlier said that it had conducted strikes on around 120 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
The IDF said that it was continuing attacks in Lebanon to “damage and degrade ‘s military capabilities and infrastructure.”
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09/30/2024September 30, 2024
Apartment building struck in central Beirut — reports
News agencies cited witnesses in reports that an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in central .
If confirmed this would be the first Israeli strike within the city limits of Beirut in almost a year of fighting between and Hezbollah and comes amid continued attacks throughout .
The Reuters news agency reported that an upper floor of an apartment building in the Kola district of Beirut was hit and cited witnesses as having heard a bang and seeing smoke rising from the upper floor of the building.
French news agency AFP cited a security source saying that an Israeli drone hit an apartment belonging to Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya and that four people were killed. This could not be independently verified.
There have been other strikes on Beirut, including the one that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday, but this would be the first within the city limits and not in a suburb.
kb/ab (Reuters, AFRP, AP, dpa)
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