Lebanon, UN condemn latest Israeli strike on Beirut as undermining ceasefire

The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 27, 2025 2:14 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Israeli jets struck Beirut's confederate suburbs Sunday aft issuing a informing astir an hr earlier, marking the 3rd Israeli onslaught connected the country since a ceasefire took effect successful precocious November.

In a connection pursuing the strike, the Israeli subject said it targeted a precision-guided rocket retention installation for the militant Hezbollah group. It added that storing specified instrumentality is simply a usurpation of the statement reached to extremity the Israel-Hezbollah war.

A immense plume of fume billowed implicit the country aft the strike, successful which what looked similar a metallic structure situated betwixt 2 buildings appeared to person been deed by 3 bombs, according to an Associated Press lensman connected the crushed and footage circulating connected societal media. The lensman saw 2 burned, destroyed trucks wrong the hangar. There were nary contiguous reports of casualties.

In the warning, the Israeli subject said it was targeting Hezbollah facilities successful the Hadath country and urged residents to determination astatine slightest 300 metres from the tract earlier the strike. Two informing strikes followed.

Fighter jets were heard implicit parts of the Lebanese superior earlier the onslaught adjacent the Al-Jamous neighbourhood, wherever gunfire was changeable into the aerial to pass residents and impulse them to evacuate, arsenic families fled successful panic.

During the past Israel-Hezbollah war, Israeli drones and combatant jets regularly pounded the confederate suburbs, wherever Hezbollah has wide power and support. Israel views the area, wherever it has assassinated respective of Hezbollah's apical leaders, including main Hassan Nasrallah, arsenic a militant stronghold and accuses the radical of storing weapons there.

Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun condemned the Israeli onslaught connected Beirut's confederate suburbs and called on the United States and France — as guarantors of the ceasefire — to "assume their responsibilities" and unit Israel to halt its attacks. He warned that Israel's continued actions "undermine stability" and hazard exposing the portion to superior information threats.

Jeanine Hennis, the UN special co-ordinator for Lebanon, posted connected X that the latest Israeli onslaught "generated panic and fearfulness of renewed unit among those hopeless for a instrumentality to normalcy." She urged each sides to halt immoderate actions that could further undermine the ceasefire knowing and the implementation of the UN resolution that ended the war.

Sunday's onslaught follows 2 earlier attacks connected the capital's confederate suburbs, the archetypal taking spot connected March 28, erstwhile Israel besides issued a warning, and the 2nd connected April 1, erstwhile an unannounced onslaught killed 4 people including a Hezbollah official.

The person of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, Sheikh Naim Kassem, has precocious warned that if Israel's attacks connected Lebanon continued and if Lebanon's authorities doesn't enactment to halt them, the radical would yet edifice to different alternatives.

Kassem besides said that Hezbollah's fighters won't disarm arsenic agelong arsenic Israeli troops stay successful confederate Lebanon and the Israeli aerial unit regularly violates Lebanese airspace.

Under the U.S.-brokered ceasefire that ended the 14-month, Israel-Hezbollah war, Israeli forces were expected to retreat from each Lebanese territory by precocious January, portion Hezbollah had to extremity its equipped beingness southbound of the Litani River on the borderline with Israel.

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Earlier connected Sunday, a drone onslaught killed a antheral successful the confederate Lebanese colony of Halta, according to the Health Ministry. In a station connected X that included footage of the strike, the Israeli subject said that it had targeted a Hezbollah member, "where helium was moving to rebuild Hezbollah's violent capabilities successful the area."

Last week, the Lebanese authorities said 190 radical person been killed and 485 wounded successful Lebanon by Israeli strikes since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire went into effect. Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah officials and infrastructure.

The Lebanese subject has gradually deployed successful the country's confederate region, and Beirut has urged the planetary assemblage to unit Israel to halt attacks and retreat its forces inactive contiguous connected 5 hilltops successful Lebanese territory.