Israeli bomb Beirut is the first time since the ceasefire with Hezbollah, with fatal strikes continuing in Gaza

Beirut, Lebanon – since A fragile ceasefire Ended latest Israel – Helra War November. Associated Press reporters in Beirut heard the enormous boom and witnessed smoke rising from the areas where the Israeli military warned that it would strike.

The strike came after Israeli troops urgently warned people to evacuate part of the Beirut suburbs, vowing to retaliate against the strikes launched by Lebanon to Northern Israel. Israel’s defense minister said Friday that if there is no peace in Israel’s northern communities, Beirut will not be peaceful either.

The Israel Defense Forces said the strike in Beirut was aimed at targeting Hezbollah drone storage facilities in the Dahiye neighborhood, which Israel has long described as a major base for Hezbollah. Israel accused Hezbollah of using civilians as human shields, and the IDF pointed out its high-level warning to people leave the area on Friday.

Hezbollah denied launching rockets to Israel North and accused Israel of seeking excuses to continue attacking Lebanon.

Lebanon’s government ordered all schools and universities in Hadath, a southern suburb of Beirut, to close today. Residents were seen fleeing cars and walking before the strike.

This is the first strike since a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah on November 27, 2024, a US and Israel-designated terrorist organization, even though Israel attacked targets almost every day in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah began firing rockets, drones and missiles at Israel the day after its unprecedented terrorist attack by Ally Hamas on October 7, 2023, which inspired the war in Gaza. Israel-The Hebraic conflict boiled in September, with Israel launching air strikes and killing most senior leaders of militant groups. The fight killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon and moved away from the country’s approximately 60,000 Israelis in communities near the shared borders.

Israeli forces were supposed to withdraw from all Lebanese territory under the ceasefire agreement in late January. The deadline is extended to February 18, but Israel remains at five locations in Lebanon across the northern Israeli community. Meanwhile, Israel carried out dozens of air strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon, saying it attacked Hezbollah while continuing drone attacks, killing several members of the militant group.

Last week, Israeli air strikes at several sites in Lebanon killed six people.

Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, said the exchange of the fire was very worrying. “This is a critical time for Lebanon and the region as a whole,” she said Friday.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun visited Paris for the first time as the leader of his country, and Israel strikes in Beirut. He met with President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, after which he called the Israeli strike “unacceptable” and he believed that “crime-fire violations” would “become Hezbollah’s hands”.

Aoun called Friday’s strike a “Israel violation” and the agreement was sponsored by the United States and France.

Israel continues to bomb Gaza as the humanitarian crisis deepens

The upgrade is abruptly ended in Israel with Hamas in Gazaby launching a wave of surprise strikes, killing hundreds of people in the destroyed Palestinian territory.

Earlier this month, Israel stopped delivering food, fuel, medical and humanitarian aid to about 2 million residents in Gaza.

Israel vows to escalate the war Until Hamas returns to 59 hostages It still exists in Gaza, with 24 people still considered alive. Israel demanded that Hamas give up power, disarm and exile his leaders from Gaza.

Hamas said it would only release the remaining captives in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and Israel’s evacuation from Gaza.

The war triggered by Hamas terrorist attacks has been Killed over 50,000 Palestinians According to the Enclave Hamas-Ministry of Operations, in Gaza, many of them are women and children. The attack on Israel led Hamas and its allies to kill about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and hijack 251 hostages.

Palestinian media said on Friday that nearly 40 people died in the Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip overnight, including 14 killed in the attack, which attacked a house near Al-Zaytoun, Gaza city. Gaza’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday that 855 people have been killed since the Israeli attack on March 18. Hamas – The Operations Department’s figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants’ casualties.

The World Central Kitchen Charity said in a social media post that a volunteer in Gaza died in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday, which attacked one of the kitchens during the meal distribution process.

The organization founded by American Spanish chef José Andrés “We have a heavy heart today.” Say in social media postadding that six more people were injured in the same strike. About a year ago, Andres Accused of Israeli forces Gaza’s “targets for us in defouling areas” “targets for us”. The charity acknowledged that it rejected some staff in Gaza in December after Israeli authorities provided a list of about 60 WCK volunteers, which was allegedly related to terrorism.

“WCK should not consider it as a conclusion that an individual has a connection to any terrorist organization,” the Washington, D.C.-based charity said at the time. “Before receiving the results from cogat,” [Israeli government] Security checks, we have no reason to focus on these people, and since Israel does not share intelligence with aid organizations, we do not know the basis for Israel’s decision to mark these people. However, we believe this is a necessary condition to protect our team and operations. ”

Two weeks after Israel cut off most of the humanitarian aid into the territory, the United Nations World Food Programme’s deepening hunger crisis in Gaza on Friday also raised alarms on Friday, with directors in the region telling the AL Al Jazeera network that more than 90% of the Enclave population on the network lacking food security.

According to a report by the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Israel is blocking Between March 18 and March 24, 82% of the aid convoys were intended to be used in Gaza), thus hindering relief efforts.