'It's a residential neighbourhood': Locals condemn Israeli strike on Beirut

Record ID: 1986632

  • Title: 'It's a residential neighbourhood': Locals condemn Israeli strike on Beirut
  • Date: 29th March 2025
  • Summary: BEIRUT SOUTHERN SUBURBS, LEBANON (MARCH 29, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MACHINE REMOVING RUBBLE FOLLOWING ISRAELI STRIKE / PEOPLE GATHERING MAN SCOURING THROUGH RUBBLE, HOLDING BELONGINGS STREET SCENE SHOWING DEBRIS ON THE STREET BEIRUT SOUTHERN SUBURBS RESIDENT, MOHAMMAD AL MOKDAD, SITTING NEXT TO OTHERS IN FRONT OF A DAMAGED STORE (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) BEIRUT SOUTHERN SUBUR
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  • Keywords: AFTERMATH BEIRUT ISRAEL LEBANON PALESTINIANS STRIKE
  • Location: BEIRUT SOUTHERN SUBURBS, LEBANON
  • City: BEIRUT SOUTHERN SUBURBS, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
  • Reuters ID: LVA001270929032025RP1
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  • Story Text: Residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs on Saturday (March 29) condemned Israel’s strike on the area, saying it targeted a “residential neighbourhood.”
    Locals were retrieving their personal belongings from rubble on Saturday (March 29), a day after an Israeli strike targeted a building there, causing damage to the neighbourhood.
    Israel on Friday (March 28) carried out its first major airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs in months, retaliating for an earlier rocket launch from Lebanon in the most serious test of a shaky ceasefire deal agreed in November.
    The strike targeted a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a Hezbollah stronghold known as the Dahiyeh, that Israel said was a drone storage facility belonging to the Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim militant group.
    The ceasefire has looked increasingly flimsy in recent weeks. Israel delayed a promised troop withdrawal in January and said last week it had intercepted rockets fired on March 22, which led it to bombard targets in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah has denied any involvement in the rocket firing.
    Beirut's southern suburbs were pounded last year by Israeli airstrikes that killed many of Hezbollah's top leaders, including its powerful long-time chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a September air attack.
    (Production: Ahmad al Kerdi, Joelle Kozaily)
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