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The Foreign Ministry condemned the Israeli strike on "a densely populated area in the southern suburbs of Beirut, which caused panic among civilians and material damage." The ministry called on "the countries sponsoring the truce agreement to pressure Israel to end its repeated attacks and violations of Resolution 1701, which jeopardize regional peace and security and undermine the Lebanese state's efforts to preserve its national sovereignty."

"The ministry will continue its contacts with brotherly and friendly countries to put an end to these violations and for Israel to withdraw from all Lebanese regions and all the points it still occupies," added the Foreign Ministry. 

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned Israel's continued "terrorization of people in their homes, while they want to return to normal life," according to a statement released on X by the Grand Serail. Salam called on the "states sponsoring the security agreement for the cessation of hostilities to take steps to end these attacks and accelerate Israel's complete withdrawal from Lebanese territory."

Salam also stated that "Lebanon fully adheres to the provisions of Resolution 1701 and the agreement on security arrangements, and that the Lebanese army continues its work and expands its deployment in the south and in all Lebanese territories in order to extend the authority of the State and ensure that it is the sole holder of weapons." 

The Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party (SSNP) called on the Lebanese government, in a statement, to "demand that international powers compel the enemy to withdraw" from south Lebanon and to "put an end to its attacks," following the Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.

According to Israeli security sources on Israel's Army Radio, the Israeli army notified the United States before carrying out its strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut. 

Commenting on the strike on the warehouse in Hadath, the Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson explained that "measures were taken to avoid harming civilians, including issuing a prior warning to residents and using precision munitions."

Regarding the targeted location, he alleged that it was an "infrastructure used for the storage of precision missiles belonging to ... Hezbollah."

"The storage of missiles in this infrastructure constitutes a flagrant violation of the agreements between Israel and Lebanon as well as a threat to the State of Israel and its citizens," he said. Hezbollah would then have "stored missiles inside a building located in the heart of the Lebanese civilian population."

Last December, L'Orient Today analyzed satellite data cross-referenced with Israeli military evacuation notices and revealed that these announcements may have violated international law.

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The Israeli strike on a building in southern Beirut targeted "a facility housing Hezbollah precision missiles that posed a threat to Israel's security," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement, quoted by Haaretz.

In videos posted on social media, showing different angles of the strike on Hadath, it is clear that three missiles were fired at the building hit by the Israeli air force. 

In a brief statement posted on X, President Joseph Aoun condemned the Israeli strike on Hadath. He called on France and the United States, sponsors of the cease-fire agreement and members of the committee normally responsible for monitoring its implementation, to "assume their responsibilities and force Israel to immediately end its attacks."

Israeli security sources contacted by Israeli Army Radio accused Hezbollah of "storing weapons" in the building struck by the air force.

In tears, Zahraa Sbeity, 16 years old, said she has been living in "constant fear" since the April 1 strike, which targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut at night.

"I can't sleep and check Avichay's X regularly, I really can't take this anymore."

Khadijah Husseini, who lives near the airport road, was sleeping when she was awakened by a heavy gunfire sound.

"I woke up startled and checked my phone. I found my WhatsApp flooded with messages about the warning. I woke up, made Nescafe and waited for the strike. What else could I do?"

Smoke over the southern suburbs of Beirut after an Israeli strike. (Photo sent by a resident of the southern suburbs)

According to media reports, a fire briefly broke out at the scene of the attack, but did not spread to the surrounding area. Firefighters are on the scene. The targeted building, a hangar-like structure used during Ashoura commemorations, was destroyed.  

A missile was fired by an Israeli fighter jet at the southern suburbs of Beirut, where the Hadath neighborhood had been threatened by the Israeli army. The blast was heard for miles around. Gunfire in the air was heard in the area.

According to media reports in the neighborhood near the targeted area, residents are gathering in the area with photos of former Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and chanting slogans in his memory.

Two new warning strikes, using a drone, were fired at the area threatened by the Israeli army in Hadath, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

An Israeli drone is also flying over villages in the Nabatieh district and the eastern sector of the border area, according to L'Orient Today's regional correspondent.

⚡ A first 'warning' strike, carried out by an Israeli drone, targeted the Hadath neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent. 

Israeli reconnaissance drones are flying low over the towns of Taybeh, Majdaloun, Brital, Douris and the surrounding area of ​​Baalbeck in the northern Bekaa, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent.

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The warehouse indicated in the Israeli army’s evacuation warning is in the Jammous area of Hadath, near the location of their last strike, according to L’Orient Today’s correspondent.

As residents flee the targeted neighborhood, Israeli drones are flying over Beirut's southern suburbs, and Israeli aircraft are entering Lebanese airspace, L'Orient Today's correspondent reported.

🔴 Minutes after warning of an "urgent and important alert for residents of Beirut's southern suburbs," the Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, issued a statement on X calling for "immediately evacuating [the building in red on a map] and moving away from it at least 300 meters, in accordance with the indications on the map," showing the Hadath neighborhood. 

"To anyone in the building marked in red on the attached map, as well as in neighboring buildings: You are near Hezbollah facilities," he said. The building identified on the map appears to be a warehouse, located a few meters from Saint Georges School and another public school. 

Such warnings were common in October and November 2024 during the full-scale war between Hezbollah and Israel. Since the cease-fire on Nov. 27, 2024, the southern suburbs of Beirut have been hit twice by Israeli strikes, on Feb. 28 in Hadath with a similar warning, and on the night of March 30, without warning, killing four.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar announced that they would settle $15 million of Syria's debt to the World Bank, in a joint statement quoted by AFP.

Reuters reported 10 days ago that Riyadh was ready to repay Syria's entire $15 billion debt to the World Bank. This decision will relieve Syria of a significant burden, as the new authorities in Damascus inherited a country short of foreign currency and unable to honor loans contracted under the Assad regime, which was overthrown on Dec. 8.

The Israeli army, via a message posted on Telegram by its Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, announced the killing of a "Hezbollah terrorist" in Halta. In an "airstrike," the army "eliminated" the man who was "restoring the capabilities" of the party in the area, according to the statement. 

The Gaza Health Ministry on Sunday confirmed the deaths of several hundred missing people, now reporting 52,243 people killed since Oct. 7, 2023.

"A total of 697 martyrs have been added to the cumulative statistics, after finalization and verification of their data by the missing persons monitoring committee," the ministry said in a statement quoted by AFP.

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said he saw "some progress" at a meeting in Doha on Thursday as part of the Qatari mediator's efforts to secure a truce in the Gaza Strip.

Asked at a press conference about a possible meeting between Mossad chief David Barnea and himself, Thani replied: "We saw some progress on Thursday," without confirming that he had met with the Israeli. Qatar plays a key mediating role in negotiations between Israel and Hamas. 

Hezbollah announced the death of one of its members, the man killed this morning in Halta while working on a poultry farm. In a brief statement with a photo of the victim, the party announced that Amer Abd al-Aal's funeral will take place in Halta on Monday afternoon.

(Photo sent by L'Orient Today's correspondent in south Lebanon, Muntasser Abdallah)

In a speech from Arabsalim (Nabatieh), Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah emphasized the "strength and presence of the resistance environment in Lebanon," declaring it "untouchable and central to national defense." He stressed that "no one has the authority to decide on behalf of the Lebanese state or people, rejecting external pressure or loud voices aimed at influencing national decisions."

He said that the "resistance was born out of the state's failure to defend the country," and reiterated the "army’s responsibility to protect borders and prevent any form of Israeli aggression."

The Palestinian Civil Defense reported eight deaths, including a teenager and a fisherman, in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip this morning. "At least eight martyrs and dozens of wounded were transported following Israeli airstrikes since dawn," Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP. Three people were killed and several others wounded when a strike hit a group of civilians in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, he said.

A 17-year-old boy died in a bombing near Khan Younis, in the south of the territory, as did another person, off the coast of the same city, in a strike against fishing boats. Also near Khan Younis, 12 people, mostly children, were injured in a strike in the al-Mawassi area, Mahmoud Bassal said. Three people were also killed in a bombing of a residential building in the al-Boureij camp.

Artillery shells were fired by the Israeli army on the outskirts of Shebaa (Hasbaya), according to information from L'Orient Today's correspondent.

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A man was killed this morning in an Israeli drone strike in Halta (Hasbaya) in the eastern sector of the south Lebanon border area, the Ministry of Health reported. L'Orient Today's correspondent in the region, citing local sources, said the victim was in his forties and was killed while working on his chicken farm between Halta and Wadi Khansa.

Despite the cease-fire, which came into effect on Nov. 27, the Israeli army continues its strikes on Lebanon, primarily in the south and the Bekaa. Israeli attacks, including bombings and gunfire, since the truce have left 149 dead, according to L'Orient Today's count. The U.N. reported on April 15 that it recorded 71 civilian deaths in these attacks. Israeli troops also continue to occupy at least five positions they consider "strategic" in south Lebanon.

Two Israeli drones have continued to fly over the central sector of the border since this morning, according to our correspondent. 

The Houthis in Yemen claimed Sunday that strikes attributed to the United States, which hit the capital Sanaa the day before, killed two people, as Washington wages a near-daily bombing campaign targeting the pro-Iranian rebels.

"Two people were killed and another wounded after the American enemy targeted a house" in a neighborhood south of Sanaa, the rebel news agency Saba said, citing the Houthi administration's Health Ministry. "Nine other people were wounded, including two women and three children, in the American attack on a residential neighborhood west of Al-Rawda," another neighborhood of the Yemeni capital, according to the same source, cited by AFP.

Hamas said yesterday it was ready to reach an agreement for the one-off release of all hostages still held in Gaza and a five-year truce with Israel, whose army continues to bombard the Palestinian territory.

A Hamas delegation was in Cairo to try to find a solution with mediators to the war triggered by the attack by the Palestinian movement's commandos on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. It left the Egyptian capital on Saturday evening after having "intense discussions" with Egyptian officials, according to a statement.

Hamas "is ready for a prisoner exchange in a single operation and for a five-year truce," one of its officials told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Hassan Ezzeddine, a Hezbollah MP, said Lebanon draws its strength from "unity, understanding, and resistance, not weakness, as Israel claims." Speaking at a commemoration in Bnaafoul (Saida), he questioned "why the United States and Israel, as well as some internal actors, are pushing to disarm the resistance, even prioritizing it over Lebanon's real needs."