Lebanese authorities: 46 people died in Israeli attacks on Wednesday

The Israeli army announced another airstrike on Beirut on the night from Wednesday to Thursday. According to Lebanese media, the attack hit the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Dahije, described as a Hezbollah stronghold.

According to estimates by the government in Beirut, more than 1,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks over the past two weeks, and about 1.2 million Lebanese have had to flee their homes because of them. The media reports that a large proportion of the victims are civilians. Lebanon it is inhabited by approximately 5.5 million people.

Israel argues that the target of the attacks is not the civilian population, but the terrorist organization Hezbollah, which has been shelling the north of Israel since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip, and – according to the authorities in Jerusalem – was preparing an attack on the north of the country modeled on the Hamas invasion of the south of the country on October 7.

At least six people were killed and seven injured on the night from Wednesday to Thursday as a result of an Israeli air attack in the center of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said.

The Israeli armed forces said that “the target of a precision air attack was a health center belonging to Hezbollah.”

It was the first Israeli air attack on the very center of the Lebanese capital. The building under fire is located in the central Bachoura district, close to the Lebanese parliament and regional office UN – emphasized the BBC station.

On the night of Monday to Tuesday, the Israeli army launched ground operations against Hezbollah on the Lebanese side of the border. On Wednesday, fighting took place in the border areas. Earlier, intensive air raids on Lebanon continued for over a week.

“Israel destroyed about half of Hezbollah's arsenal of rockets and missiles, estimated at 120,000-200,000 pieces before the outbreak of the war,” the New York Times wrote on Wednesday. The raids also killed almost all of the group's senior commanders, including its leader Hasan Nasrallah.

Israel, in parallel with the fighting in Lebanon, is fighting a war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Both Hezbollah and Hamas are supported by Iran as part of the targeted USA and Israel militia networks in various regions of the Middle East.

On Tuesday, Iran fired a salvo of approximately 200 ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation for the deaths of leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas and a senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Most of the rockets were shot down.

Israel announced retaliation, Iran threatened to attack in the event of an armed response by the Jewish state. The situation in the Middle East is the most tense in months and raises fears of a regional war. The US, which helped Israel repel the Iranian attack, declares that it fully supports this country.