The Israel Defense Forces struck Beirut’s suburbs on Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hezbollah launched three projectiles into southern Israel.Israel launched the strikes on the day President Donald Trump said a deal between the United States and Iran would be finalized. Tehran has said Israel’s strikes could hamper any peace deal set to be finalized.The IDF said Sunday it struck a Hezbollah command center in Dahiyeh, Beirut, in response to three projectiles launched by Hezbollah toward northern Israel. IDF said precautions were taken to mitigate harm to civilians prior to launching its strikes.
“We attacked in Dahiyeh in Beirut targets of the terror organization Hezbollah,” Netanyahu posted on X. “Israel will not tolerate fire into its territory.” The Israeli prime minister attached aerial footage of the strikes in Beirut.
Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, said in an X post that Israel’s strikes cast doubt over a peace deal from Washington under review by Tehran.
“The Zionists’ incursion into Dahiyeh has once again shown that America either lacks the will to fulfill its commitments or the ability to do so,” Ghalibaf said. “By giving the green light to the regime, you cannot gain concessions. The game of bad cop and good cop is outdated.”
