In Jmaijmé in South Lebanon, in the district of Bint Jbeil, a three-story building was reduced to ashes by an Israeli air raid on July 18, 2024. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient Today.)
BEIRUT — While the Israeli air force was bombing the southern suburbs of Beirut, fighter jets carried out two waves of strikes from Thursday night to Friday on Ain Qana, in the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon, where a call to evacuate had been issued by the Israeli state.
According to our correspondent in the south, two "warning" drone strikes initially hit the village before the air force bombed it around midnight, causing one injury. An hour later, three additional strikes targeted the area, and ambulances transported three more injured individuals.
Around 3 a.m. at dawn, Israeli drones flew over the Zahrani region.
Israeli strikes have continued daily since the cease-fire came into effect on Nov. 27, 2024. These strikes have left more than 170 dead according to our tally. These are rarely preceded by warning, with only one such warning on Toul in the Nabatieh district resulting in an evacuation notice.
Such warnings have been issued three times since the start of the truce concerning the southern suburbs of Beirut, including yesterday. After these warnings, targeting several buildings across three neighborhoods, at least eight different strikes, some with multiple missiles, hit what Israel described as "underground infrastructure used to manufacture drones." The Israeli army had issued an evacuation order nearly an hour beforehand, causing panic in the streets of Burj al-Barajneh, Haret Hreik, and Hadath neighborhoods, in the middle of the start of the Eid al-Adha.
The bombings resulted in an undetermined number of injured, with several hospitals in the area informing L'Orient Today that they had received victims.
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