Israeli bombing on the center of Beirut destroys eight-story building and kills 20 people // The attack, at 4 am, shakes the city
▲ Rescuers search for victims among the rubble of the destroyed building in the Basta el Faouqa neighborhood, in Beirut.Photo Ap
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Sunday, November 24, 2024, p. 16
Beirut. Nearly 200 deaths were reported on the Gaza and Lebanon fronts after various Israeli attacks in the last 48 hours. The toll of victims in the strip amounts to 44,200 deaths since October 7, 2023, while in Lebanon there are 3,670. The United Nations agency for refugees in Palestine stated that around 80 percent of The deaths verified on the strip occurred in residential buildings.
In Gaza there were seven massacres in two days, which left 120 dead; There are still victims among the rubble and lying in the streets, without ambulances and Civil Defense teams having been able to access themreported the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The Israeli army yesterday issued a new forced evacuation order for Khan Younis (south), because terrorist organizations are again firing rockets towards the State of Israel from their areareported the Qatari network Al Jazeera.
In Lebanon, 43 people were killed yesterday in the south of the country and 20 more in the capital, most in an attack in Basta el Faouqa in central Beirut, where an eight-story building was demolished and many more were damaged. According to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health, the Tel Aviv offensive has displaced nearly 1.2 million people, or a quarter of the country’s population.
Israeli forces fired four missiles with bunker buster bombs, destroying the building. The attack shook the Lebanese capital at 4 a.m. yesterday and left a deep crater; Rescue teams are still searching for survivors in the rubble, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.
According to sources from the Al Arabiya network and the Israeli public broadcaster Kan, the target of the assault was a senior Hezbollah official, Mohamed Haydar.
There was dust and destroyed houses, people running and screaming, they were running, my wife is in the hospital, my daughter is in the hospital, my aunt is in the hospitalsaid Nemir Zakariya, holding a photo of his daughter, as he tried to comfort a traumatized woman outside the hospital.
Meanwhile, a video shared online, verified by Al Jazeera, shows the extent of the destruction in Chiyah, south of Beirut, where the perpetrator’s father, Hasan Raad, is heard saying: There are no stones left, no humans, no pigeons, no cats.
On the other hand, the armed wing of Hamas reported the death of an Israeli hostage. Weeks after reestablishing contact with those in charge of protecting the captives, it was learned that a woman had died in an area under Israeli fire in the northern Gaza Strip.said the spokesman for the organization’s armed wing, Abu Obaida. He added that the life of another hostage, who was next to the deceased, is in danger; He did not reveal their identities.
In Tel Aviv, demonstrators protested in front of the house of President Isaac Herzog to demand the return of the captives; relatives of those detained denounced that the premier he needs the war to continue so he can avoid judgment for pending corruption, maintains Einav Zangauker, father of one of the Hamas hostages.
Netanyahu will begin testifying in his criminal trial next month, after a court rejected his request for a delay due to time pressures to manage the current multi-front conflictreported The Times of Israel.
Netanyahu assured that there is a witch hunt against him and his advisors for the investigation opened against his spokesman Eli Feldstein for theft and leak of documents from the Israel Defense Forces, with the intention of harming the State. According to the judge, the leak was intended to reinforce the premier’s reputation for his handling of the war.
Meanwhile, 11 Israeli settlers were detained in the reoccupied West Bank for attacking elements of the Tel Aviv army following the government’s decision to annul – for that population – the figure of administrative detention, which allowed arrests without charges or trials, a rule that follows valid for the Palestinians.
The Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, justified this measure because while unjustified international sanctions are taken against the settlers, it is not appropriate for the State of Israel to adopt such a severe measure against the population of the settlements.