BEIRUT/JERUSALEM: An Israeli airstrike killed five people in central Beirut on Monday (Nov 18), Lebanon's health ministry said, the second day in a row Israel has hit a target within the capital as it presses its campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Rescue workers and policemen search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon , Nov 18, 2024. BEIRUT/JERUSALEM: An Israeli airstrike killed five people in central Beirut on Monday , Lebanon 's health ministry said, the second day in a row Israel has hit a target within the capital as it presses its campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
US envoy Amos Hochstein was expected in Beirut soon as negotiations continue, a US source told Reuters. Earlier a woman was killed when a rocket struck a building in Shfaram, in the north, Israel's ambulance service said. The Israeli military said about five projectiles had been fired from Lebanon. Israel launched its offensive after almost a year of cross-border hostilities with Hezbollah. Its declared goal is to dismantle Hezbollah's capabilities to secure the return of tens of thousands of Israelis who evacuated the north due to rockets fired by Hezbollah in solidarity with its ally Hamas as the Gaza war began more than a year ago. Israel's campaign has uprooted more than 1 million people in Lebanon in the last eight weeks.
"If, for example, a Hezbollah facility appears, who will dismantle it?" the official said, adding:"The Lebanese side wants the army to deal with this." Berri told the pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on Friday that the US proposal did not include freedom for Israel to act.
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