Israel pounds Beirut and Gaza after rockets hit Israel's north
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT/CAIRO -Israel struck what it said were Hezbollah arms facilities in southern Beirut on Saturday after the Lebanese armed group fired rockets into northern Israel and a spokesman said a drone was launched at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's holiday home.
Officials, diplomats and other sources say that with U.S. elections approaching, Israel is seeking to use intensified military operations to try to shield its borders and ensure its rivals cannot regroup. Israel had issued evacuation orders for four separate neighbourhoods within the suburbs, urging residents to get 500 metres away, but carried out strikes in other areas as well, witnesses said.
Another strike killed at least four people in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, health authorities said. One of them was the mayor of a nearby town, the second mayor to be killed this week. Iran’s mission to the United Nations said in a statement:"We have already responded to the Israeli regime, and the action in question has been carried out by Hezbollah in Lebanon."Hezbollah has been trading fire with Israel since the war between Israel and Iran-backed Hamas began in Gaza last October.
Since October 2023 more than 2,400 people have been killed in Lebanon, most of them in the last month, according to Lebanon's health ministry, while 59 people have been killed in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights, according to Israeli authorities.
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