Strike in downtown Beirut. The leaders of the Palestinian organization are dead

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine reported the attack, which took place shortly after midnight on a residential building in the Kola district, located near a busy thoroughfare full of shops and restaurants, on Monday morning. According to witnesses of the event, it was a precise attack on a specific target. The drone hit one of the upper floors of the premises where the PFLP leaders were staying.

According to unofficial information from the Lebanese Civil Defense, cited by the Associated Press, a member of the Sunni group al Jamaaa al Islamiyah, a political and military group allied to Hezbollah, was also killed.

The Israeli side has not commented on this information so far.

It was the first Israeli attack on central Beirut since October 8 last year. So far, the Israeli army has attacked the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, where the Shiite Hezbollah has its bases.

On the night from Sunday to Monday Israel also carried out several attacks on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanese emergency services said.

As a result of the recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon At least 123 people died and 359 were injured, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported on Sunday. In earlier attacks, the leader of the Shiite Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, and almost all members of the group's leadership were killed.

The Israeli army also attacked targets on Sunday Houthi rebels In Yemen. According to local media, at least 4 people were killed and 33 injured. The Houthis, in solidarity with Hezbollah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, had earlier fired several ballistic missiles at Israel.

According to Al-Massirah TV, the fatalities included “a port worker and three engineers.” The Israeli army said that “during a large-scale operation, dozens of air force aircraft attacked military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the Ras Isa and Hodeidah regions.” The attacked facilities were used by the Houthis to “transmit Iranian weapons and military supplies to the region,” spokesman David Awraham said in a statement cited by AFP. “The attacks were carried out in response to the recent attacks by the Houthi regime on the state of Israel,” he added.

Pakistanis are protesting against the killing of Hasan Nasrallah by the Israeli army. Nearly 4,000 people gathered in Islamabad and about 3,000 in the port city of Karachi at marches and prayers organized by Shiite groups.

“We oppose what Israel is doing in Palestine and Lebanon, that's why we are here today,” Taskeen, 27, a protest participant in Islamabad, told AFP. Pakistan's foreign ministry in a statement issued on Sunday condemned Israel's “increasing adventurism” in the Middle East. “The reckless act of killing a Hezbollah leader in Lebanon constitutes a serious escalation in an already unstable region,” it added.

Authorities Pakistan accused the Jewish state of “increasing adventurism.”

Boss Pentagon Lloyd Austin ordered to strengthen the air support forces USA in the Middle East and increase the level of readiness of additional US forces to be deployed to the region, the Pentagon announced on Sunday. The White House said it was seeking de-escalation and a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

“We must avoid full-scale war,” the US president said on Sunday Joe Bidenreferring to the Israeli-Lebanese conflict. He announced that he would soon discuss this matter with the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu.

Earlier, the spokesman for the National Security Council, John Kirby, expressed a similar opinion about the conflict. In an interview for CNN, he noted that the escalation of the war would not enable a quicker return of Israeli residents to the border region. Villages on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border were evacuated shortly after Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel; Since then, Hezbollah, which controls the south of Lebanon, has been regularly shelling Israel as a gesture of solidarity with the Palestinian group, which is met with strong counterattacks.