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Friday, September 20, 2024
Footage purports to show strike on Dahiyeh, Lebanese media reports F-35 carried out attack
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Footage purports to show the scene of the Israeli airstrike in Beirut a short while ago.
Lebanese media reports claim that an Israeli F-35 carried out the attack, with two missiles.
The strike targeted a building in Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburb, a known Hezbollah stronghold.
The IDF describes the strike as “targeted.”
غارة إسرائيلية على #الضاحية_الجنوبية لبيروت pic.twitter.com/xRlqmO2GxO
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غارة بصاروخين عبر طائرة حربية F35 تستهدف مبنى في منطقة الجاموس في #الضاحية_الجنوبية لبيروت وفرق الاسعاف تهرع لمكان الاستهداف pic.twitter.com/f5QY9TYurf
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It marks only the third time that the IDF has carried out airstrikes in Beirut since the beginning of the war.
In July, an Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed Hezbollah’s military chief Fuad Shukr, and before that in January, Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri was killed in an IAF strike in the Lebanese capital.
