Israel hits apartment block on heart of Beirut

Israel carried out an air strike on a Beirut apartment block on Monday, a Lebanese security source said, killing four people in its first such raid on the heart of the city since the outbreak of the Gaza war last year.

Israel has turned its focus from Gaza to Lebanon in recent days, carrying out attacks on Iran’s regional allies. Strikes on Hezbollah targets killed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday.

Monday’s drone attack targeted a “flat belonging to Jamaa Islamiya”, a Lebanese Islamist group, the security source said.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a secular left-wing group, said three of its members were killed in Monday’s strike on Beirut’s Kola district.

The group said in a statement that its military security chief Mohammad Abdel-Aal, military commander Imad Odeh, and Abdelrahman Abdel-Aal were killed.

The Israeli military said it had launched fresh strikes on dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon’s Bekaa region on Monday.

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