Israeli air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday killed three people and injured six others, raising fresh concerns that the latest escalation could jeopardise ongoing efforts to secure a US-Iran peace deal.
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The strike targeted the Dahiyeh district of Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah. Smoke was seen rising over the Lebanese capital as rescue workers searched through the rubble of a damaged apartment building. Lebanon’s Civil Defence said it recovered three bodies and six wounded people from the site.
In a statement posted on X, the Israeli military said it had carried out “a precise strike” against a Hezbollah command centre in Dahiyeh. The Israeli Air Force said the facility “served the terrorists of the terrorist organization Hezbollah for advancing terror plots against the citizens of the State of Israel and IDF forces operating in southern Lebanon”.
