Lebanese state media say Israeli strikes have hit branches of the Hezbollah-linked Al-Qard Al-Hassan financial association, including near the country’s only commercial airport, after the Israeli military warned it would attack the quasi-bank, accusing it of financing the Iran-backed terror group’s operations.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency reports eleven strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, many of them targeting Al-Qard Al-Hassan.
One strike landed near Beirut’s airport, NNA says. Commercial planes were still seen flying past clouds of smoke in the area, an AFP correspondent says after watching them land at the airport, near the south of the Lebanese capital.
A video feed appears to show the airport operating as usual.
NNA also reports strikes targeting the association in Hermel, Riyaq and Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley region in Lebanon’s east, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Israeli border.
The strike on Baalbek hit a commercial market housing a building formerly used by Al-Qard Al-Hassan, NNA says.
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