Gallant says Israel ‘destroying’ Hezbollah as bombing of Lebanon escalates
Al Jazeera
Israel has intensified attacks across Lebanon, leaving cities and villages devastated.
The Israeli military has pounded the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, and has struck southern Lebanon, as Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant claimed the army was “destroying” the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) reported on Sunday that Israel’s strikes on Dahiyeh – a southern suburb of Beirut – hit a residential building in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood near a mosque and a hospital.
The Israeli military said that it hit the “command centre of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters” and an underground weapons facility in Beirut and that it killed three Hezbollah fighters in other attacks.
A video of the bombing posted on social media showed a multi-storey building being hit.
Israel also warned on Sunday that it was planning to target what it called Hezbollah’s financing arm, al-Qard al-Hassan, with air attacks as part of its war with the group, which has escalated significantly since September, and led to the killing of the Iran-backed group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
