Israeli attacks kill 8 in Lebanon amid threats on Iranian officials
Al Jazeera
Israeli forces pound Beirut’s southern suburbs as Iran warns against targeting embassy.
Israeli strikes have hit the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, state-run media have said, while eight people are reported killed across the country, as Israel’s deadline for Iranian officials to leave Lebanon expires amid the wider regional war.
The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) on Thursday reported several strikes in the early morning hours on the Beirut neighbourhoods of Ghobeiry and Haret Hreik. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Israel’s military had earlier issued forced displacement orders for the suburbs where the strikes were reported, warning it was about to hit what it said were targets linked to Hezbollah.
It said targets included a facility used by the group’s aerial units, without providing evidence.
Israel on Wednesday gave Iran’s representatives in Lebanon 24 hours to leave the country. That deadline has since expired.
Hezbollah says its attack is in response to the killing of Iran’s Khamenei and ‘in defence of Lebanon and its people’.
President Masoud Pezeshkian condemns killing of Iran’s supreme leader as ‘a great crime’, according to his office.
Iran confirms targeting US bases across the Middle East.