Israel attacks heart of Beirut as Hezbollah pushes back in southern Lebanon | Israel attacks Lebanon News

Israel’s navy has killed not less than 9 individuals in an air assault on central Beirut after struggling losses in combating with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

The assault on Lebanon’s capital occurred in a single day, hitting a constructing within the residential district of Bashoura, not removed from the parliament. Lebanese well being officers mentioned an additional 14 individuals had been wounded, with 4 nonetheless receiving therapy in hospital.

The assault is the second on the Lebanese capital this week, with Hezbollah-aligned al-Manar TV station saying the high-rise constructing was linked to the armed group’s well being unit.

The Hezbollah-linked Islamic Well being Authority mentioned in an earlier assertion that seven of its workers members, together with two medics, had been killed within the Beirut assault.

Reporting from the scene, Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan mentioned the sound of the explosion “reverberated across the buildings and shocked everybody close by”.

Missiles additionally hit Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, a densely packed residential space that can be a Hezbollah stronghold and the place the group’s chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed final week.

In the meantime, Lebanese military mentioned “a soldier was killed and one other was wounded because of an aggression by the Israeli enemy throughout an evacuation and rescue operation with the Lebanese Crimson Cross in Taybeh village”.

The Crimson Cross mentioned 4 of its paramedics had been wounded within the assault in southern Lebanon.

The military later mentioned {that a} second soldier was killed in an Israeli assault on a military put up within the Bint Jbeil space in southern Lebanon and that troopers fired on the supply of the assault.

“The personnel on the put up responded to the sources of fireside,” the military mentioned in an announcement.

There was no instant remark from the Israeli navy.

Earlier, Israel’s navy mentioned it killed 15 Hezbollah fighters in an air strike on a municipality constructing in Bint Jbeil the place they had been working.

That assertion got here a day after Israel mentioned eight of its troopers had been killed in floor fight in south Lebanon as its forces thrust into its northern neighbour.

Dozens of Israeli troopers have additionally been injured because the floor offensive launched on Tuesday.

Hezbollah reported that its fighters pressured Israeli troopers to retreat from multiple location alongside the border.

The Lebanese group’s media chief Mohammad Afif mentioned the battles had solely been the “first spherical” and that the armed group had sufficient fighters, weapons and ammunition to push Israel again.

Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan, reporting from Hasbaiyya in southern Lebanon, mentioned on Thursday morning that Israel appeared to have modified tack after its losses.

“It’s needed to [fall] again. It’s misplaced troopers when it has are available through the bottom, in order that didn’t occur in a single day, so it’s again to this aerial bombing marketing campaign that Israel actually has the higher hand on,” he mentioned.

Khan reported that the 2 sides had been buying and selling fireplace close to the city of Nabatieh, which has been onerous hit in latest days.

“We’re nonetheless listening to numerous air strikes, numerous artillery coming in, however we’re additionally listening to Hezbollah rockets outgoing as nicely,” he mentioned, citing Hezbollah claims that it had fired about 200 rockets on Israel.

Israel has mentioned its floor offensive in Lebanon is basically aimed toward destroying tunnels and different infrastructure on the border and there have been no plans for a wider operation focusing on Beirut to the north or main cities within the south.

Nonetheless, it issued new evacuation orders for about two dozen cities alongside the southern border, telling residents to go north of the Awali River, which flows east to west some 60km (40 miles) north of the Israeli frontier.

On Thursday, the Israeli navy continued to induce residents of Lebanese villages who had evacuated their properties to not return till additional discover. “IDF (Israeli military) raids are persevering with,” mentioned spokesperson Avichay Adraee on X.

Hezbollah and Iran’s different regional allies, Yemen’s Houthis and armed teams in Iraq, have launched assaults within the area in help of Hamas in its conflict with Israel in Gaza.

The Houthis, who’ve been finishing up assaults in transport lanes in and across the Crimson Sea which have disrupted worldwide commerce, mentioned on Thursday they attacked Israel’s business capital Tel Aviv with drones.

“The operation achieved its objectives efficiently by the arrival of the drones with out being detected or shot down by the enemy,” the group’s navy spokesperson Yahya Saree mentioned.

Israel mentioned it intercepted a suspicious aerial goal within the space of central Israel early on Thursday.