The Israeli military has in recent weeks carried out strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, without advance warnings, or issued a warning for one area while striking more broadly
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Reuters witnesses heard two blasts and saw plumes of smoke emerging from two separate neighborhoods. It came after Israel issued an evacuation order early on Wednesday which mentioned only one building. “Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including advancing warnings to the population in the area,” the Israeli military said.
On Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said the US had expressed its concerns to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration on the recent strikes. Iran’s allies in its “Axis of Resistance” to Israeli and US interests — Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Yemen’s Houthis and armed groups in Iraq — have staged attacks in the region in support of Hamas in the Gaza war, complicating efforts to ease tensions.
On Tuesday, Netanyahu told President Emmanuel Macron of France during a phone conversation that he opposed a unilateral ceasefire and said he was “taken aback” by Macron’s plan to hold a conference on Lebanon, according to an Israeli readout.
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