Monday, September 30, 2024, 07:34
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claims that three of its leaders have been killed during an Israeli attack on a building in the Cola district of Beirut. The armed action took place in the early hours of this Monday and it would be the first bombing by Israel inside the capital of Lebanon, probably since the 2006 war with Hezbollah. Since the beginning of clashes with the Shiite militia last October, almost a year ago, the Defense Forces had attacked the southern suburbs of the city, a Hezbollah stronghold, but not an interior district.
The alarm arose in the early hours of the morning when the capital’s emergency services were mobilized while videos began to circulate showing a column of smoke emerging from the top of an apartment building. The tower showed a gap where the Israeli army had allegedly directed a drone in order to reach an apartment occupied by suspected terrorists.
Initially there was speculation that the troops were targeting a cell of Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya, which has subsequently denied this circumstance. This organization is part of a much broader one, the Muslim Brotherhood, and in recent months it has participated together with Hezbollah in launching rockets against the interior of the Hebrew State, according to its National Security agency. On the other hand, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has finally acknowledged the death of its three militants.
During the early hours of Monday morning, rescue teams continue searching through the rubble. It is not ruled out that a fourth fatality may have appeared in the attack on this neighborhood, with a Sunni Muslim majority. Lebanese security sources have explained how hundreds of citizens have remained in the open tonight after abandoning their homes and have gathered on hospital esplanades in search of refuge due to fear of new bombings.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health has reported that since October 8, a day after the Hamas massacre against the kibbutzim near Gaza, where more than 1,200 people were murdered, the clashes between the Israeli army and Hezbollah have now left 1,640 dead. Among them are 104 children and 194 women while the injured number close to 9,000. The Defense Forces’ fight against the Shiite militia, an ally of Hamas, has intensified dramatically this September, claiming a thousand lives, according to the ministry.
The same sources affirm that this number is possibly much lower than the real one, since there are an undetermined number of missing people and dozens of bodies “buried under the rubble.” Jihad Saadeh, director of the Rafik Hariri Hospital in Beirut, affirms that the health network is prepared to manage assistance to mass victims of the Israeli bombings, although he acknowledges to the international media that “the situation is taking an insane turn” that he recalls. to “the civil war and the 2006 war” against Israel.
Beirut is not the only enclave of Lebanon hit by the terror of night attacks. The Defense Forces acknowledge that their planes have attacked this Monday, in the middle of darkness, dozens of places in the Bekaa Valley where, according to military spokesmen, They have destroyed Hezbollah rocket launchers and arsenals. The Palestinian group Hamas has just issued a statement stating that its leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, has died along with several family members in one of these attacks in the south of the country.
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