Israel Strikes Choueifat Near Beirut, Killing At Least 14 Before Washington Security Talks

Israel carried out an airstrike on the Choueifat area on the edge of Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday afternoon, hitting an apartment building and sending white smoke billowing from a residential neighborhood close to Beirut’s international airport.

“Israel's air force struck a southern suburb of Beirut on Thursday afternoon, its military said, amid a broader escalation of hostilities in southern Lebanon”

CBC

The strike came a day before crucial negotiations in Washington, where Lebanese and Israeli military officials were set to hold their first security talks on Friday.

CBC

Tensions were described as rising in southern Lebanon after Israeli troops crossed the strategic Litani River, which the Israeli military has used as a de facto boundary, while large areas to the south remained under Israeli military control despite the Washington-brokered ceasefire from April 17.

The escalation also included overnight strikes across southern Lebanon, with the Lebanese Health Ministry and the state-run National News Agency reporting that dozens of people were wounded and that at least 14 people were killed across the south.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned the attacks on Tyre and Nabatiyeh as “onslaughts” and called the ongoing displacement “collective punishment,” while also saying the “necessity of an immediate ceasefire” and “complete Israeli withdrawal from our land” was needed.

Hezbollah dismissed the talks and said the Lebanese leadership should withdraw from them, with the group’s parliamentary bloc arguing that “The ruling authority persists in pursuing a downward trajectory” while “compromising both sovereignty and rights under the pretext that it is compelled to continue direct negotiations with the enemy.”

In contrast, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said Netanyahu instructed the military “to deepen our operation in Lebanon” to protect communities of Israel’s north, while also stating that Israel would continue U.S.-mediated negotiations in Washington.

France 24

The WTOP account said the Israeli military issued another evacuation warning for Tyre and its suburbs, and it described Tyre as “Considered one of the oldest metropolises of the world,” with UNESCO World heritage status declared in 1984.

Roya News framed the Choueifat raid as an “Israeli” strike and said Lebanon’s military source told AFP on condition of anonymity that “an Israeli strike targeted an apartment in the Choueifat area.”

Roya News also reported that Israel declared all areas south of Lebanon’s Zahrani River as “combat zones” and told residents to evacuate ahead of attacks against Hezbollah.

The strikes were reported as widening Lebanon’s offensive, with France 24 citing a ceasefire that was “supposed to have taken effect on April 17 but has never been observed,” and describing the first raid near Beirut in weeks.

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France 24 reported that Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli attacks since then had killed 3,324 people, an increase of 55 compared to a day earlier, while also stating that “approximately 2,500 Hezbollah terrorists have been eliminated” since March, including 800 since the ceasefire announcement.

UNIFIL said “Wednesday saw around 670 projectiles fired -- the highest level since 17 April,” and Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, expressed concern and called on both sides to respect the ceasefire.

WTOP reported that further north in Sidon, an Israeli drone struck an apartment building where displaced families lived, killing five people and wounding 21 others, including five children, and it added that in Adloun an Israeli drone struck a car with a family fleeing, killing six people including four children and their parents.

WTOP also said that “Over one million people in Lebanon have been displaced,” while CBC reported that the attacks prompted warnings to eight buildings and surrounding neighborhoods in Tyre and that dozens of others were wounded according to the Lebanese Health Ministry and the state-run National News Agency.