Israel has been hitting Beirut for the first time since November stop

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Israel attacked the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday for the first time since the ceasefire in November, ending its war with a militant group Hezbollah, where hostilities were installed throughout the region after Israel resumed its attack in Gaza.

The Israeli army made a major blow to a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut, which it said was a drone storage facility used by Iran supported by Iran. Hezbollah.

A high mutation was repeated over the capital, with a smoke column from the area, large areas of it were reduced to ruins due to Israeli air strikes during the height of the war last fall.

It was preceded by a warning from the Israeli army to evacuate the area, as it threatened revenge on two projectiles that were launched from Lebanese territory earlier on Friday. One of them was intercepted, while the other projectile fell in LebanonThe army of Israel said.

The Israeli army also said it struck Hezbollah’s goals in southern Lebanon on Friday, after the launch of the projectiles. One of the strikes killed at least three people, including one woman, and wounded 18 others, including women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in Lebanon.

The missiles from Lebanon fired air alarms in many Israeli border societies. Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, warned that “if there is no peace in the Kiryat Shona and Galilee societies (in northern Israel), there will be no peace in Beirut as well.”

Katz added that “the Lebanese government bears a direct responsibility” for the attack on Friday.

The Lebanese Armed Forces said it had identified the missile launch site and was investigating. Hezbollah denied shooting missiles, accusing Israel of searching for an excuse to continue its attacks on Lebanon.

The Prime Minister in Lebanon, Nawaf Salam, described the strike as a “dangerous escalation.” French President Emmanuel Macron, who was meeting his Lebanese counterpart in Paris on Friday, described the strikes as “unjustified” and said that he would invite US President Donald Trump to discuss it.

The escalation came after Israel ended this month, a ceasefire at Hamas in Gaza by launching a series of air strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians, according to local officials, and resumed the ground operations in a broken pocket. Earlier, food, fuel and humanitarian aid in the pocket had been suspended.

This also came after the renewal of the United States’ attacks on the Houthi rebels in Yemen last week, following the group’s threats to resume the attacks on the Red Sea shipping corridors, which increased fears that the area was slipping towards the full conflict. The Houthis launched dozens of attacks in the Red Sea last year, saying that they were acting in solidarity with the Palestinians in response to the Israeli attack in Gaza.

The Israeli warning in southern Beirut sent the population with panic in the densely populated area on foot, as traffic withdrew in the streets.

Follow Final Israeli air strikes In southern Lebanon last Saturday, which killed eight people, according to the Ministry of Health, Lebanon, was launched in response to missiles fired from Lebanese territory.

Israel launched a fierce air and land attack against Hezbollah after the Iran -backed movement towards Israel launched after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 from Gaza.

More than 4,000 people were killed in Lebanon and more than 140 Israeli civilians and soldiers who were killed in the fighting, which resulted in the displacement of more than 1 million people in Lebanon and 60,000 in Israel.

According to the conditions of the ceasefire in the United States, which suspended 13 months of fighting, Hezbollah agreed to transfer its weapons from southern Lebanon, and the Israeli forces had to withdraw completely from southern Lebanon and would move Laf.

But the Israeli forces remained in five “strategic” positions inside southern Lebanon, insisting that they are part of the deal. Each side accused the other of failing to implement the entire deal, as the Air Force in Israel continues to launch air strikes and drones repeatedly, as it says are Hezbollah’s goals throughout Lebanon.

Participated in additional reports by James Stoster in Jerusalem and Mall Srivastava in London