The Israeli military announced today that it had attacked a warehouse of "precision missiles" belonging to the Lebanese movement Hezbollah in Beirut, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced.
"On the orders of Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Defense Ministry, the army strongly attacked a warehouse in Beirut where Hezbollah was storing precision missiles, which pose a significant threat to the State of Israel," the statement said.
An Agence France-Presse journalist in Beirut reported that an attack was carried out on the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold.
Smoke is seen rising above a building in the Hadat neighborhood after the attack.
So far, there are no reports of possible casualties.
It is the third attack on Beirut's southern suburbs since the ceasefire that ended the two-month war between the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement and Israel on November 27.
Despite this ceasefire, the Israeli military regularly carries out attacks in Lebanon, claiming to target Hezbollah fighters and infrastructure. At the beginning of the Gaza Strip war in October 2023, after the Palestinian movement Hamas attacked Israel, Hezbollah opened a front against Israel by firing rockets from southern Lebanon in support of its Palestinian ally.
These hostilities escalated into open war in September 2024 with intense Israeli bombing in Lebanon, mainly against Hezbollah strongholds, which decimated its leadership. More than 4.000 people died in that war.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called tonight on the United States (US) and France, guarantors of the ceasefire agreement that ended the war between Israel and the Hezbollah movement, to force Israel to immediately cease attacks, following the bombing of the Beirut suburbs.
Aoun condemned the Israeli attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut and added that "the US and France, as guarantors of the ceasefire agreement, must assume responsibility and force Israel to immediately cease the attacks."
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