According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, an Israeli raid on the Jnah neighborhood has resulted in five deaths and 21 injuries. Two other people died in an attack targeting a vehicle in the Khaldeh region, south of Beirut.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday, April 1st, that Israeli strikes had caused a total of seven deaths, with five in Beirut and two in the south of the Lebanese capital.
“The raid carried out by the Israeli enemy on the Jnah neighborhood in Beirut, according to initial reports, resulted in five deaths and 21 injuries,” the ministry wrote in a statement. According to a security source to AFP, the Israeli strikes on Jnah targeted four parked cars in a street.
On Wednesday, AFP journalists heard three explosions in the capital. They were the result of naval bombardments by Israeli warships on the Jnah neighborhood, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency (ANI).
Tsahal claims to have targeted a “senior commander” of Hezbollah.
The Ministry of Health also stated that an Israeli strike “targeting a vehicle in the Khaldeh region, south of Beirut, resulted in two deaths and three injuries among the civilian population.”
Shortly before this announcement, ANI reported that several missiles fired by an Israeli drone had hit a car on a major road south of Beirut on Tuesday, with ambulances and firefighters on the scene.
The Israeli army announced Tuesday night to Wednesday that it had targeted a “senior commander” of Hezbollah as well as a “high-ranking terrorist” in two separate assaults “in the Beirut region,” without specifying if this second target was also part of the Lebanese Islamist movement, or revealing the exact location of the attacks.
More than 1,200 deaths in one month.
On Tuesday, Israel notably targeted a building on the road to Beirut’s airport and hit an apartment in the northern suburb of the capital without warning, according to ANI.
The Ministry of Health had previously reported at least eight people, including a rescuer, killed during multiple Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, in the regions of Tyre, Sidon, and Bint Jbeil.
Israeli Defense Minister Katz has expressed his country’s intention to occupy part of southern Lebanon once the war is over.
Since Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into the regional war on March 2, Israel has carried out massive strikes on the country, resulting in more than 1,200 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.
