The NYT reported that this was the deadliest Israeli airstrike on the route. The Lebanese Ministry of Health said in a statement on the same day that "At least 22 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in central Beirut."
"The first attack targeted an eight-storey building in the Ras El Bana area, killing 17 people and wounding at least 117," the paper quoted the Lebanese state news agency as saying.
The second attack caused a four-story building in the Basta area to collapse. This is seen as an expansion of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut.
The Lebanese military has been conducting airstrikes intensively in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh, which is considered the base of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. On this day, the airstrikes were aimed at residential areas in the center of the city, where apartment buildings and shops are densely packed.
It is unusual for someone to have been the target of such an attack. There have been allegations that the raid was aimed at a senior Hezbollah official. Reuters cited multiple sources as saying that Leslie, who heads Hezbollah's communications and coordination department, was the target of the attack.
It said a senior official in charge of cooperating with Bannon's security services was targeted in an air raid the same day but survived.
2024/10/11 09:30 KST
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