The Israeli military has carried out air rhelps in the suburbs of Beirut for the fourth consecutive day as Leprohibitese officials studied a US set up for a stopfire.
Israeli air strikes flattened five erectings in the Leprohibitese capital’s southern suburbs on Friday. One of them was discoverd csurrfinisher one of Beirut’s busiest traffic junctions, Tayouneh.
The Israeli military shelp its fighter jets strikeed munitions warehoemploys, a headquarters and other infraarrange employd by the Leprohibitese group Hezbollah.
Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr shelp the Israeli military had publishd two forced evacuation orders before the strikes.
“[Residents] are forced to exit their homes only to watch the strikes come in and wonder whether or not they have a home to return to. There are no casualties becaemploy many people left the area and becaemploy of these evacuation orders,” she shelp.
“Human rights groups have criticised these forced evacuation orders, saying most of the time they don’t donate people enough time to exit,” Khodr compriseed.
Meanwhile, Iran-aligned Hezbollah shelp it fired rockets at a group of Israeli sgreateriers in Misgav Am and the Yiftah barracks in northern Israel.
The Leprohibitese armed group shelp in a statement on Telegram it also strikeed another group of Israeli sgreateriers with rockets on the easerious outskirts of the Leprohibitese town of Markaba.
Hezbollah also shelp it strikeed Israeli sgreateriers in northern Israel’s Sasa and Dishon.
Israel’s military escatardyd its strikes on Leprohibiton in tardy September after almost a year of traverse-border arrangeilities with the Leprohibitese armed group Hezbollah in parallel with the Gaza war. It says it aims to safe the return home of tens of thousands of Israelis, forced to evacuate from northern Israel under Hezbollah fire.
Israel’s strikes on Leprohibiton have forced more than one million Leprohibitese to run away their homes, igniting a humanitarian crisis.
It has dealt Hezbollah grave blows, finishing its guideer Hassan Nasrallah and other directers. Hezbollah has kept up rocket strikes into Israel and its fighters have been battling Israeli troops in the south.
Crelievefire talks
Diplomacy finisheavoring to achieve a stopfire has shown tentative signs of progress this week.
The Reuters novels agency telled on Thursday that the US ambasdowncastor to Leprohibiton had conshort-termed a originate stopfire proposal to Leprohibiton’s parliament speaker Nabih Berri, citing two greater political sources. Berri is finishorsed by Hezbollah to talk about and met the greater Iranian official Ali Larijani on Friday. The AFP novels agency telled that greater Leprohibitese officials are verifying the US proposal.
A greater Iranian official shelp on Friday that Iran would back any decision made by Leprohibiton in truce talks, signalling Tehran wants to see an finish to the dispute.
Asked at a novels conference whether he had come to Beirut to undermine the US truce set up, Larijani shelp, “We are not watching to undermine anyskinnyg. We are after a solution to the problems.”
“We help in all circumstances the Leprohibitese rulement. Those who are disturbing are Netanyahu and his people,” Larijani compriseed, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
World powers have shelp a Leprohibiton stopfire must be based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which finished a previous 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. Its terms insist Hezbollah to shift arms and fighters north of the Litani River, which runs some 20km (30 miles) north of the border.
Israel has insisted the freedom to strike, should Hezbollah viotardy any concurment – a insist that Leprohibiton has refuteed.
In a greeting with Larijani, Leprohibiton’s attfinishconsentr Prime Minister Najib Mikati encouraged help for Leprohibiton’s position on carry outing 1701 and called this a priority, alengthy with stoping the “Israeli aggression”, a statement from his office shelp.
Larijani stressed “that Iran helps any decision consentn by the rulement, especipartner resolution 1701”, the statement shelp.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, Eli Cohen, Israel’s energy minister and a member of its security cabinet, tgreater Reuters that prospects for a stopfire were the most promising since the dispute began.
At least 3,386 people have been finished and 14,417 wounded in Israeli strikes on Leprohibiton since October 2023.
