Five people were killed in an Israeli attack last night on a center of the “Hezbollah” in the heart of Beirut, the Lebanese Ministry of Health and a source close to the Lebanese Islamist movement said, quoted by AFP and BTA.
The agency notes that this is the second strike aimed at the center of the Lebanese capital this week.
„Two people were killed and 11 wounded in an Israeli attack targeting Bashura, a neighborhood in the center of the capital, a source close to Hezbollah said. AFP journalists in Beirut heard an explosion and reported that some buildings shook before ambulances rushed to the scene.
The Israeli army carried out three strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut shortly before midnight yesterday, a source close to the Lebanese Hezbollah group said, the third series of Israeli attacks on the stronghold of the pro-Iranian Islamist movement in less than 24 hours.
Lebanon's Ministry of Health reported last night that 46 people were killed and 85 wounded by “Israeli enemy strikes” in the last 24 hours in several regions of the country.
The son-in-law of Hassan Nasrallah was among the three killed in an Israeli attack on a residential building in the Syrian capital Damascus, according to data from the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
Nasrallah's son-in-law was killed in the Israeli airstrike in the Mezeh neighborhood. in Damascus, sources of the center reported.
A total of three people were killed in the impact. Two of the victims have Lebanese citizenship, one of whom is Nasrallah's son-in-law - Hassan Jaafar Kasir.
„Hassan Jaafar Kassir, son-in-law of Hassan Nasrallah, is one of the two Lebanese victims of the Israeli strike on an apartment in a residential building in the neighborhood of "Mezeh" in Damascus", the NGO said in a statement, quoted by France Press.
According to the UK-based centre, the three-storey building targeted by the Israeli strike was used by members of the pro-Iranian Shiite group "Hezbollah" and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
US President Joe Biden said he would not support any Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities in response to Iran's missile attack on the Jewish state and called on Israel to respond "proportionately" to its regional enemy, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA.
Biden's remarks come a day after Iran fired more than 180 missiles at Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran will pay for the attack.
"We will discuss with Israel what to do and all the G7 countries agree that it has the right to respond, but it should respond proportionately,", Biden told reporters before leaving for South Carolina.
Some analysts say Israel's response will be more massive than the previous Iranian missile attack in April, hinting that Iranian nuclear and oil facilities could be targeted this time. Other experts believe that the US will try to pressure Israel not to resort to such an extreme response in order to avoid a regional war.
Asked if he would support Israeli strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, as Israel has long threatened to do, Biden told reporters: "My answer is NO.
Biden said additional sanctions would be imposed on Iran and that he would speak to Netanyahu about it soon.