No less than 22 individuals had been killed and 117 others wounded in Israeli air strikes in central Beirut on Thursday, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Well being mentioned, within the third such assault on the centre of the Lebanese capital since Israel escalated its bombing marketing campaign final month.
Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan mentioned many individuals who had been displaced from southern Lebanon in latest weeks had sought shelter within the capital.
“Many individuals who had fled southern Lebanon had discovered shelter right here, and it’s simply turning into re-traumatising, unpredictable and harmful,” Khan mentioned.
The injured had been delivered to native hospitals, which despatched out a warning asking individuals to not donate blood as a result of they had been already overwhelmed by the variety of casualties and the influx of members of the family.
Al Jazeera correspondents on the bottom mentioned a household of 5 those who had fled southern Lebanon was killed alongside three family members who had been internet hosting them.
The assaults, which got here with out warning, mark the third time since Israel expanded its marketing campaign on Lebanon in late September that its bombs have hit outdoors Dahiyeh, a southern suburb that has seen near-daily air raids in latest weeks.
A Lebanese safety supply, with out giving additional particulars, mentioned a “Hezbollah determine” was focused after a collection of killings of prime officers within the Iran-aligned motion.