War in the Middle East: Israeli army bombs suburbs of Beirut again

The Israeli army has once again bombed the southern suburb of Beirut on Saturday, April 4th at dawn, claiming to “hit Hezbollah infrastructure” in the Lebanese capital. On Friday, an Israeli strike destroyed a bridge in the eastern part of the country, as reported by Lebanese official media. The Israeli state says it wants to prevent transfers of reinforcements in arms and personnel to Hezbollah. Lebanon was drawn into the conflict on March 2nd when Hezbollah, backed by Tehran, fired rockets on Israel in retaliation to the American-Israeli attack. Since then, the Israeli army has been pounding vast areas of the country and conducting a ground offensive in the South. Follow our live coverage.

– An American aviator sought by Washington and Tehran. Iran and the United States are engaged in a race on Saturday to locate one of the two occupants of an American F-15E fighter jet that crashed on Iranian territory on Friday. American media reports that one of the two aviators ejected in flight and was extracted during a special forces raid in southwest Iran, while the fate of the second remains unknown. The Iranian state television broadcasted images purported to be of the wreckage, promising a “generous reward” for anyone who hands over the pilot.

– Iran claims to have shot down a second American aircraft. The Iranian army claimed on Friday night to have hit another American aircraft, a close air support A-10 Thunderbolt II, which then crashed in the Gulf. The New York Times had previously reported the crash of an American aircraft near the Strait of Hormuz, noting that its lone pilot was rescued unharmed.

– Explosions heard from the north of Tehran. A journalist from AFP heard several explosions on Saturday morning from the north of the Iranian capital, an area hit by powerful strikes on Friday. These explosions were accompanied by a loud buzzing of aircraft in the Tehran sky, resembling that of a drone, according to the journalist.