BEIRUT, Lebanon: Israel’s military renewed its attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs Friday, saying it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure, as the Iran-backed group said the foes had clashed directly in the country’s south.
Nearly a month into the Middle East war, the United Nations refugee agency warned that Lebanon was facing a deepening humanitarian crisis that risks teetering into a catastrophe.
Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war when Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah fired rockets toward Israel on March 2 to avenge the US-Israeli killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Israel has responded with large-scale airstrikes on Lebanon and a ground offensive in the south.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported an Israeli strike on south Beirut’s Tahouitet Al-Ghadir area, where authorities said another raid without warning earlier Friday killed two people.
