Plumes of smoke rise from suburb of Dahiyeh in Lebanese capital after airstrike threatens fragile truce

Israel has conducted an airstrike on Beirut for the first time since signing a November ceasefire with Hezbollah.

Huge smoke plumes rose from the site of the attack in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh and residents reported hearing the explosion from the mountains surrounding the Lebanese capital.

The strike threatens to upset the fragile truce in place between Hezbollah and Israel since a ceasefire was signed on 27 November last year.

  • finder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    Earlier in the morning, Israel announced it had intercepted one of two rockets coming from Lebanon, the second time in a week that rocket fire was directed towards it, after three rockets were fired at the town of Metula on 22 March.

    According to the military, one of the rockets was intercepted, while the other fell short inside Lebanese territory as rocket sirens sounded in the city of Kiryat Shmona and the communes of Tel Hai, Margaliot and Misgav Am.

    No one claimed responsibility for Friday’s rocket fire, and Hezbollah issued no statement.

    Anyone taking bets on how long the ceasefire will last at this rate?

    • Airowird@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      He needed the ultra-right party to keep him in power, and those guys are all about “peace through genocide” kind of strategies.

      As usual, nazi regimes use ceasefires as strategic tool, but have little interest in actual peace as long as they aren’t the ones dying.