Israeli army says it carried out 'precise' attack in Beirut's southern suburb

JERUSALEM

The Israeli army on Monday evening announced carrying out a "precise and directed" attack on Beirut's southern suburb.

The Israeli army, however, didn't provide further details on the target it attacked.

An Anadolu correspondent confirmed that an Israeli airstrike hit the southern suburb.

The official Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) also said the Israeli airstrike targeted the Al-Kokodi neighborhood in southern Beirut.

The Hezbollah group is yet to comment on the Israeli strike.

Israel has mounted massive airstrikes across Lebanon against what it claims Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23, killing 1,251, injuring 3,618 others, and displacing more than 1.2 million people.

The aerial campaign was an escalation in yearlong cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of Tel Aviv’s brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 42,000 people, mostly women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.

Despite international warnings that the Middle East region was on the brink of a regional war amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, Tel Aviv expanded the conflict by launching on Oct. 1 a ground invasion into southern Lebanon.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar