A multistory building collapsed in the Tayouneh neighborhood of capital, , after being severely damaged by Israeli airstrikes.
Tayouneh is near the Horsh Beirut public park and is where Lebanon’s southern neighborhoods meet the rest of the city.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported a “heavy raid carried out by aircraft of the Israeli enemy” in the Ghobeiry area of southern Beirut.
It said the raid was preceded by two missile strikes on the same target by an Israeli drone.
The Israeli military has said the southern suburbs of Beirut are a bastion for the militant group.
The Friday strikes followed a call by the Israeli military to evacuate the area.
“All residents in the southern suburbs, specifically … in the Ghobeiry area, you are located near facilities and interests affiliated with Hezbollah,” the Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said in a post on the platform X.
“For your safety and the safety of your family members, you must evacuate these buildings and those adjacent to them immediately.”
Also on Friday, the Israeli military said in a post on X that it had launched strikes on what it described as over 120 Hezbollah targets within 24 hours.
It said that ground operations in southern Lebanon were still ongoing.
sdi/ab (AP, AFP, dpa, Reuters)
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