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Israeli strike on Beirut ‘changes the rules of the game’, Iran says

William Christou

IRANHis embassy in Beirut condemned Israelthe airstrikes of Dahiyeh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, on Friday, saying the strikes “represent a serious, game-changing escalation.”

He added that Israel would be “appropriately punished”.

Since Israel’s escalation in Lebanon, Iran has signaled its reluctance to get directly involved Hezbollah’fight with Israel.

In New York, during a visit to the United Nations, on Monday, the Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian, said that a larger war in the Middle East “will not benefit anyone.”

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Israel carried out a series of deadly airstrikes in the Dahiyeh district of southern Beirut on Friday, Israel’s largest in Lebanon since he started exchanging fire with Hezbollah on October 8.

Here is our video report:

Israel conducts deadly airstrike in southern Beirut – video

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Israel prepares for potential retaliation after Beirut strike

Lorenzo Tondo

Lorenzo Tondo

Israel prepares for potential retaliation from Hezbollah in Lebanon as well as from Yemen and Iran.

The Home Front Command urged residents of the Golan Heights, Safed, Merom HaGalil to stay near the protected areas.

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William Christou

Residents of Dahiyeh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, and a nearby Palestinian refugee camp, Burj al-Barajneh, began fleeing the area in the hours following Israeli airstrikes on the area on Friday night.

Some people held bags, others held nothing, as beeping scooters weaved through the crowds of people leaving their homes.

They were appealed for empty apartments in Achrafieh, a Christian area of ​​east Beirut, and areas in the mountains around Beirut that were spared most of the fighting during the 2006 war in Lebanon, Israel.

It is the second time in a week that Lebanese residents have fled Israeli airstrikes, after Israel launched a large-scale air campaign on Monday that displaced more than 90,000 residents of southern Lebanon.

Hospitals asked people to donate blood in anticipation of a large number of casualties, with 76 already reported injured, although emergency personnel were just beginning rescue operations.

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The UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said she was “deeply alarmed” and “deeply concerned” about the potential impact on civilians Israeli hit on Beirut Friday.

The “massive” strikes took place in the “densely populated” southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Hennis posted on X. She added:

The city still trembles with widespread fear and panic. All must immediately cease fire.

Deeply alarmed and deeply concerned about the potential civilian impact of this evening’s massive attacks on the densely populated suburbs of southern Beirut. The city still trembles with widespread fear and panic. All must immediately cease fire.

— Jeanine Hennis (@JeanineHennis) September 27, 2024

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Here are some of the latest images from the news from Beirut, where Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least two people were killed and 76 wounded in an Israeli air strike on Friday.

People inspect the damage at the site of an Israeli strike, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Lebanon’s southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday. Photo: Emilie Madi/Reuters
A member of the civil defense walks around the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday. Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP
A view shows a damaged building at the site of an Israeli strike amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday. Photo: Emilie Madi/Reuters
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As we reported earlier, the Pentagon said that US had no advance warning of the Israeli attack on Beirut.

Israel notified the US just moments before the strike, CNN reported, citing multiple sources.

According to a US official, Israel informed Washington that it was taking military action once the operation was already underway and Israel had planes in the air. CNN quoted the official as saying:

I had no prior knowledge of this and that doesn’t qualify as attention.

A Pentagon spokesman said that the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, was on the phone with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, as the operation was in progress.

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Minister of Health of Lebanon, Firas Abiad, said there was a “complete decimation” of four to six residential buildings as a result of Israeli strikes in Beirut Friday.

Abiad told the New York Times that the number of hospital casualties was low so far because people were still trapped under the rubble. He said:

They are residential buildings. They were full of people. Whoever is in those buildings is now under the rubble.

NEW — Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said there was a “complete decimation” of 4 to 6 residential buildings as a result of Israeli attacks in Beirut. Most are still trapped under the rubble.

“They were full of people,” he said @nytimes.

— Euan Ward (@euanward_) September 27, 2024

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An Israeli official told NBC News Israel is expected Hezbollah will try to launch a “major retaliatory strike” after the Israeli military said it struck the Lebanese militant group’s headquarters in Beirut on Friday.

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Two killed, 76 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Beirut, says Lebanon’s Health Ministry

William Christou

Two people were killed and 76 were injured in Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, the city’s southern suburbs. Beirut today, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health on Friday evening.

The death toll is expected to rise as rescue crews continue to clear debris from collapsed buildings during the strike.

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