On Friday, Israel launched an attack on the capital of Lebanon for the first time since the ceasefire on the latest Israel's war-God's supply In November.
The Associated Press correspondents in Beirut heard a loud boom and witnessed smoke that rises from an area in the southern suburbs of the city, which the Israeli army pledged to strike.
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It was distinguished by Israel's first blow to Beirut since the ceasefire last November and the Hezbollah Armed Party group, although Israel has attacked the targets in southern Lebanon almost since then.
The Israeli army said it had hit a Hutzb hezbollah storage facility in Dahiya, which was called strict strongholds. The strike came after Israel, which accuses Hezbollah by using civilians as human shields, came from the residents of the evacuation of the region.
The compressed area is a residential and commercial area that approaches at least two schools.
Israeli officials said the attack was a revenge for the missiles, which he said had been launched from Lebanon to northern Israel. They promised the strikes on Beirut will continue unless The government of Lebanon I worked to ensure that such attacks stop.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “We will not allow fire to our societies, not even meager,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We will attack everywhere in Lebanon, against any threat to the State of Israel.”
A bomb fell from an Israeli plane before it reached a building in Dahi, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Hezbollah denied firing missiles, and accused Israel of searching for an excuse to continue to attack Lebanon.
The government of Lebanon has ordered all schools and universities in the southern suburb of Beirut to close it for this day. The residents were seen fleeing the area in cars and on foot before the strike.
Hezbollah began firing rockets, drones and missiles to Israel the next day after October 7, 2023, an attack on southern Israel by its allies in Hamas that ignited the war in Gaza. Palestinian gunmen About 1,200 were killed in Israel and kidnapped 251 others during the 2023 attack.
The Israeli-Tarabi struggle in a comprehensive war exploded last September when Israel carried out waves of air strikes and killed most of the leaders of the armed group. The fighting killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon and explained about 60,000 Israeli.
Under the ceasefire, the Israeli forces were supposed to withdraw from all Lebanese territory by late January. The deadline was extended to February 18, but Israel remained in five border sites while dozens of strikes were carried out, according to what Hezbollah's goals in southern and eastern Lebanon. Last week, Israeli air strikes were killed in several locations in Lebanon six people.
Speaking in Paris, President of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun, that the Beirut region's strike was a continuation of “Israel's violations of the agreement” under the auspices of France and the United States
During a joint press conference with AON, French President Emmanuel Macron described the attack as “unacceptable”, and promised to address him with Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump. Macron said that the United States could put pressure on Israel.
A spokeswoman for the US State Department called on the government of Lebanon to act.
“Israel is defending its peoples and interests by responding to the missile attacks from terrorists in Lebanon,” Tami Bruce spokeswoman said on Friday. “We expect the Lebanese Armed Forces to disarm these terrorists to prevent more hostilities.”
The United Nations Special Coordinator of Lebanon, Janine Hennis Plaschire, said that the escalation had created a “critical period for Lebanon and the wider region.”
The Ministry of Health in Lebanon said that the Israeli strikes in other parts of Lebanon on Friday killed three people and wounded 18, including children and women, in the southern village of Kfar Tepnit.
The strikes come less than two weeks after Israel ended the ceasefire with Hamas with sudden strikes that killed hundreds of people in Gaza. Earlier this month, Israel has stopped the delivery of food, fuel, medicine and humanitarian aid to nearly two million Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel pledged to escalate the war until Hamas would return 59 hostages that it still endured – 24 of whom are believed to be alive. Israel requests the group to give up power, remove its arms, and send its leaders to exile.
Hamas said it would only launch the remaining prisoners in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a permanent ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
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Israel's attack on the tape killed more than 50,000 people and wounded 114,000, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which does not say the number of civilians or fighters.
The ministry said on Friday that nearly 900 has been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire ended in mid -March, including more than 40 hours over the past 24 hours.
