Archiv: Beirut (city)


24.11.2025 - 10:41 [ NNA-Leb.gov ]

Salam: Beirut‘s southern suburbs strike today necessitates rallying all efforts around the state and its institutions

NNA – Prime Minister Nawaf Salam wrote on the „X“ platform: „Today‘s attack on Beirut‘s southern suburbs necessitates uniting all efforts behind the state and its institutions.“

He added, „Protecting the Lebanese people and preventing the country from sliding into dangerous territory is the government‘s priority at this critical juncture.“

Salam pledged that „the government will continue to work through all political and diplomatic means with brotherly and friendly nations to protect the Lebanese people, prevent any open escalation, ensure a halt to Israeli aggression and its withdrawal from our land, and secure the return of our prisoners.‘

24.11.2025 - 10:39 [ Al Jazeera ]

What we know about Israel’s attack on Beirut

– Hezbollah says its top military commander, Haytham Ali Tabatabai, has been killed in addition to four other people in an Israeli air strike on Beirut.
– Lebanon’s Health Ministry says 28 people were wounded in the attack in the Dahiyeh area of southern Beirut on Sunday.
– The National News Agency reports two missiles struck an apartment building on al-Arid Street, causing major damage to nearby cars and buildings.
– The Israeli military said it “eliminated” Tabatabai, while Netanyahu’s office earlier confirmed he was the intended target.
– Israeli media have reported this was the military’s third attempt to kill him since last year’s war.
– Senior Hezbollah official Mahmoud Qmati said the strike crossed a “red line” and that the group’s leadership was weighing its response.
– Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun urged the international community to intervene to stop Israeli attacks on his country.

06.06.2025 - 04:51 [ LBCI Lebanon ]

Berri backs President Aoun‘s stance, says Israeli aggression targets all Lebanon

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri affirmed that his position is fully aligned with that of President Joseph Aoun regarding national sovereignty and in condemnation of the Israeli attacks on Beirut and Ain Qana.

06.06.2025 - 04:26 [ LBCI Lebanon ]

Total of 17 Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs

A total of 17 Israeli airstrikes targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs, including 10 warning strikes, six direct strikes, and one unexploded strike.

06.06.2025 - 04:24 [ theNationalnews.com ]

Israeli air strikes hit Beirut in latest breach of ceasefire

Israel said it was striking Hezbollah drone factories in the city‘s southern suburbs

31.03.2025 - 13:00 [ LBCI Lebanon ]

Lebanon‘s General Security arrests suspects over recent rocket launches in the south

The arrests come after unidentified rockets were fired on March 22 and 28, escalating tensions in the region. Authorities have intensified intelligence operations to identify those responsible and maintain stability.

The investigation is being conducted under judicial supervision, with officials working to determine accountability and take legal action against those involved.

31.03.2025 - 12:50 [ Middle East Eye ]

Lebanon makes arrests over rockets fired at Israel

Hezbollah has denied involvement in the rocket fire that took place on 22 and 28 March.

It, however, prompted an Israeli strike on Hezbollah‘s Beirut stronghold for the first time since the truce went into effect in November.

31.03.2025 - 11:51 [ France24.com ]

Israeli strike on Lebanon ‚unacceptable‘ ceasefire violation, Macron says

(March 28, 2025)

Israel on Friday conducted drone strikes on a southern Beirut suburb, according to Lebanese official media, shortly after the Israeli military issued an evacuation order. The strike occurred as Lebanese President Joseph Aoun met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris and is the first such attack since a November ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel.

30.03.2025 - 15:53 [ Antiwar.com ]

Netanyahu Vows to Attack ‘Everywhere in Lebanon’ as Israel Bombs Private Beirut School

(March 28, 2025)

While Israel has launched hundreds of attacks on Lebanese territory since the “ceasefire” went into effect in November, they had so far only done flights over the capital city of Beirut. Today, however, they started attacking the capital again.

24.03.2025 - 17:12 [ NNA-Leb.gov ]

Israeli drones fly at low altitude over Beirut, southern suburbs

NNA – Israeli enemy drones have been flying at low altitude over the city of Beirut and its southern suburbs, NNA correspondent reported on Monday.

23.02.2025 - 21:43 [ AFP News Agency / Youtube ]

Israeli jets fly low over Hezbollah funeral for slain chief in Beirut | AFP

Israeli jets fly low over the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium on the outskirts of the Lebanese capital Beirut as Hezbollah holds a massive funeral for their slain leader Hassan Nasrallah and his successor Hashem Safieddine.

23.02.2025 - 21:34 [ i24NEWS English / Youtube ]

IDF footage shows targeted killing of Hezbollah‘s Hassan Nasrallah

IDF footage shows targeted killing of Hezbollah‘s Hassan Nasrallah last September

23.02.2025 - 21:29 [ LBCI Lebanon ]

Israeli army publishes footage of airstrikes killing Hezbollah‘s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

In a provocative move, Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee released footage claiming to show the operation that led to the killing of former Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

23.02.2025 - 21:27 [ LBCI Lebanon ]

A day of mourning: Mass funeral procession in Beirut for Nasrallah, Safieddinne draws foreign and local figures

Lebanese from across the country and various sects arrived at dawn to bid farewell to a figure who shaped Lebanon‘s political arena for 32 years.

Among those in attendance was Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who came both in a personal capacity and as a representative of President Joseph Aoun.

The Labor Minister represented Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, while several MPs and ministers from different political blocs were also present.

24.11.2024 - 23:38 [ PalestineChronicle.com ]

Death Toll Reaches 3,670 – Israel’s War on Lebanon Continues

The Lebanese Health Ministry announced on Saturday that at least 25 people were killed on Friday and 58 were injured in Israeli airstrikes bringing the total death toll to 3,670 and 15,413 since October last year.

24.11.2024 - 23:31 [ CNN ]

Dozens killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, including 29 in central Beirut

Dozens of people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon this weekend, including 29 who died after an attack flattened a multi-story residential building in central Beirut, according to Lebanese officials.

In the densely populated Basta area of the Lebanese capital, rescue workers were Saturday searching for survivors under the rubble after the attack featuring what the state-run National News Agency (NNA) said were “bunker-busting” bombs.

23.11.2024 - 16:25 [ Middle East Eye ]

Death toll from central Beirut strike rises to 15

The ministry says this may not be the final toll.

23.11.2024 - 16:03 [ Haber Lütfen / Youtube ]

Israeli military bombs central Beirut apartment building

The Israeli army launched a heavy airstrike on a building in the city center of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.
Israeli warplanes targeted the al-Basta area in the city center of Beirut.
An 8-storey building on al-Mamoun Street, targeted by Israeli warplanes with 5 missiles, was destroyed.
AA correspondent in the area reported that the sounds of very violent explosions were heard all over Beirut.

23.11.2024 - 15:33 [ New York Times ]

Israeli Strike in the Heart of Beirut Kills 11

An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Beirut killed at least 11 people on Saturday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said, part of an intensifying Israeli military campaign that appears aimed at pressuring Hezbollah into a cease-fire deal.

16.11.2024 - 10:50 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel launches air strikes on Dahieh in southern Beirut

The Israeli Air Force on Friday said it carried out „intelligence-based“ air strikes on what it describes as Hezbollah „infrastructure“ in Dahieh, in southern Beirut.

15.11.2024 - 12:20 [ YeniSafak.com ]

Israeli attacks kill 21 more people in Lebanon as death toll nears 3,400

At least 21 people were killed in Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 3,386, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Thursday.

15.11.2024 - 12:13 [ Shafaq.com ]

Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs as death toll rises in Lebanon

Baalbek-Al-Hermel Governor Bashir Al-Khodr confirmed that rescuers pulled 12 bodies from the rubble, all for paramedics, after an Israeli airstrike hit a civil defense center in Baalbek, where over 20 people were sheltering.

The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that an airstrike on the Shaab neighborhood in Baalbek killed eight people, including five women, and left 27 others wounded.

The ministry added that four other people were killed in attacks on several locations in eastern Lebanon.

02.11.2024 - 18:33 [ Washington Post ]

Israel strikes Beirut area; U.N. warns conditions in northern Gaza ‘apocalyptic’

The Israeli military on Friday carried out overnight strikes on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital for the first time in days, while U.N. leaders warned that the conditions in northern Gaza are “apocalyptic.”

24.10.2024 - 10:22 [ Al Jazeera English / Youtube ]

Israeli air attack causes huge explosions in southern Beirut | AJ #shorts

Watch the moment huge explosions hit the Lebanese capital Beirut as Israeli forces carried out air raids, said to be targeting …

24.10.2024 - 10:11 [ Middle East Eye ]

At least 17 Israeli strikes on Beirut ‚most violent‘ attack since war began

(23 October 2024 23:14 BST)

Six buildings were destroyed around the suburb of Laylaki, Lebanese state media said, calling the raids „the most violent in the area since the beginning of the war“.

24.10.2024 - 10:05 [ APNews.com ]

Desperation amid search for survivors of an airstrike on a crowded area near major Beirut hospital

(Updated 5:56 AM GMT+2, October 23, 2024)

Nearly 16 hours after an Israeli airstrike hit across the street from Beirut’s main public hospital, rescuers were still removing debris Tuesday from the overcrowded slum area. An excavator was digging at one of the destroyed buildings, picking out twisted metal and bricks in search for bodies.

Residents standing on mounds of debris said an entire family remained missing under the rubble.

23.10.2024 - 07:31 [ Washington Post ]

Israel expands deadly strikes in Beirut after U.S. envoy visits Lebanon

At least 18 people were killed, four of them children, and 60 more were wounded in the Israeli strike near the Rafik Hariri University Hospital late Monday, with the nationwide death toll for the day reaching 63, health authorities said. In Beirut, the strikes expanded into new neighborhoods for a second day, signaling the widening scope of Israel’s military ambitions against Hezbollah militants, even as U.S. officials toured the region talking up hopes of de-escalation.

12.10.2024 - 18:44 [ LBCgroup.tv ]

Death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon reaches 2,255, with 10,524 injured amid ongoing conflict

(October 12, 2024)

Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon Friday left 26 dead and 144 injured, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health’s Emergency Operations Center.

The attacks are part of an ongoing conflict that has claimed 2,255 lives and injured 10,524 since the aggression began.

12.10.2024 - 18:40 [ Fananews.com ]

Israeli Attacks on Lebanon Claim 2,229 Lives Since October 2023

(October 11, 2024)

The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since October 2023 has risen to 2,229, with 10,380 people injured.

Over the past 24 hours, 57 airstrikes were recorded, bringing the total number of Israeli assaults since the start of the aggression to 9,588, according to a statement released Friday by the Lebanese Government Emergency Committee

11.10.2024 - 23:21 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

Israel Jails US Journalist, Fires On UN Peacekeepers, Bombs Beirut, Kills More Kids, Etc

I used to be able to write individual articles about the individual bad things the US empire is involved in around the world. These days I’m increasingly finding it necessary to cram a bunch of them into a single daily write-up to touch on as many of them as I can.

11.10.2024 - 00:05 [ theHill.com ]

At least 22 killed in airstrikes in central Beirut, with Israel also firing on U.N. peacekeepers

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, said in a statement that its headquarters and positions “have been repeatedly hit” by Israeli forces.

It said an Israeli tank “directly” fired on an observation tower at the force’s headquarters in the town of Naqoura, Lebanon, and that soldiers had attacked a bunker near where peacekeepers were sheltering, damaging vehicles and a communication system. It said an Israeli drone was seen flying to the bunker’s entrance.

07.10.2024 - 11:35 [ CNN ]

CNN witnesses ‘very intense’ bombing in Beirut

CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman reports on intense strikes by Israel in southern Beirut.

06.10.2024 - 21:12 [ Aure Free Press / mstdn.social / Mastodon ]

Aure Free Press NOW! The Dahieh in Beirut: An Israeli Air attack, in an area dense with residential buildings – without an evacuation alert to its residents! How many died needlessly in THIS strike?

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