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Key Points
- Israel has struck south Beirut, at a site it says Hezbollah was storing precision-guided missiles at.
- Lebanon’s president has urged France and US to halt breaches of a fragile ceasefire.
- The UN says the strike triggered ‘panic and fear’ among civilians desperate for normality.
Lebanese television channels broadcast images of a fire around the hangar-like building.
“The Dahiyeh neighbourhood in Beirut will not serve as a safe haven for the terrorist organisation Hezbollah,” it vowed, using the Arabic name for the southern suburbs.
Aoun called on “the United States and France, as guarantors of the ceasefire agreement, to assume their responsibilities and compel Israel to halt its attacks immediately”.
Heavy black smoke billows from an area targeted by an Israeli air strike on Beirut’s southern suburb on Sunday. Source: Getty / Marwan Naamani
‘Fear of renewed violence’
The Lebanese health ministry said an Israeli drone strike on the border town of Halta killed one person.
Israel was to withdraw all its forces from south Lebanon, but troops remain in five positions that it deems ‘strategic’.
