According to the health ministry, Israel carried out a fresh bombing attack on central Beirut on Monday, killing five people. Meanwhile, firefighters said that a rocket fired from Lebanon killed one Israeli woman.
According to Gaza’s interior ministry, which is operated by Hamas, an operation against the looting of relief trucks in the affected area claimed the lives of at least 20 people.
Following weeks of airstrikes to clear the southern suburbs of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group’s stronghold, Israel has launched several strikes into central Beirut in recent days.
Israel promised to secure its northern border with Lebanon so that Israelis displaced by cross-border fire could return home, and in September it intensified its assault of Hezbollah strongholds.
Lebanon’s health ministry said five people were killed and 31 wounded in an Israeli strike Monday in Zuqaq al-Blat. Many people have fled to the densely populated district from southern Beirut.
The official National News Agency (NNA) said an apartment near a Shiite Muslim place of worship had been targeted, “causing great damage”.
An Israeli strike Tuesday destroyed a four-storey building in the neighbourhood of Chiyah, wounding multiple people, NNA reported.
At least 10 people were killed in Israeli strikes around central Beirut on Sunday. Hezbollah spokesman Mohammed Afif and four members of his media team were killed in one of the attacks.
