The Israeli army launched a series of air strikes in Beirut, Lebanon, in the early hours of Sunday (20/10). This follows Israel’s threat to bomb the building housing a branch of the Qard al-Hassan financial institution affiliated with the Hezbollah group.
Israeli warplanes carried out at least nine strikes in an hour, targeting affiliated Hezbollah branches in Hayy al-Sellum, Borj al-Barajneh and Ghobeiry in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.
Israel carried out a series of air raids after threatening to attack Hezbollah’s important economic assets in Lebanon.
“The air force will launch large-scale strikes against targets in the southern suburbs of Beirut targeting economic assets linked to Hezbollah,” Daniel Hagari, an Army spokesman, said at a news conference.
“In a few minutes, we will issue a warning to residents of the southern suburbs and the Bekaa Valley to leave several buildings located near Hezbollah facilities,” military spokesman Avichay Adraee told X in Arabic.
Qard al-Hassan is one of Hezbollah’s main financial institutions founded in the 1980s as a charitable association. Israel has launched a major air campaign in Lebanon against purported Hezbollah targets since September 23, resulting in more than 1,500 deaths and the displacement of more than 1.34 million people.
This air campaign is an escalation of a year of cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah since the incursion in the Gaza Strip took place. Israel has killed more than 42,600 people, mostly women and children, since attacks by the Hamas resistance group last year. Israel expanded the conflict on October 1 by launching an attack on southern Lebanon. (Ant/Z-2)
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