At least four people have been killed and 23 injured in an Israeli strike in central Beirut a short while ago, according to the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV network, citing Lebanese health authorities.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says Israeli war planes “completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles” and left a crater in the ground.
AFP journalists report hearing at least three large explosions.
Unverified videos posted to social media show a massive plume of smoke rising from the site of the apparent Israeli attack.
IDF did not issue an evacuation order for civilians before launching the strike, as it has done in recent airstrikes on the Hezbollah terror group’s stronghold in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF on the latest strike, which comes hours after fighter jets carried out two waves of airstrikes on Lebanon’s coastal city of Tyre, and further sorties on the country’s south and Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut last night
