Israel strikes Beirut for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war

Israel connected Friday launched an onslaught connected Lebanon's superior for the archetypal clip since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah warfare successful November.

Associated Press reporters successful Beirut heard a large roar and witnessed fume rising from an country successful the city's confederate suburbs that Israel's subject had vowed to strike.

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It marked Israel's archetypal onslaught connected Beirut since a ceasefire took clasp past November betwixt it and the Hezbollah militant group, though Israel has attacked targets successful confederate Lebanon astir regular since then.

Israel’s service said it deed a Hezbollah drone retention installation successful Dahiyeh, which it called a militant stronghold. The onslaught came aft Israel, which accuses Hezbollah of utilizing civilians arsenic quality shields, warned residents to evacuate the area.

The country struck is simply a residential and commercialized country and is adjacent to astatine slightest 2 schools.

Israeli officials said the onslaught was retaliation for rockets it said were fired from Lebanon into bluish Israel. They promised strikes connected Beirut would proceed unless Lebanon's authorities worked to guarantee specified attacks ceased.

"We volition not let firing astatine our communities, not adjacent a trickle," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. "We volition onslaught everyplace successful Lebanon, against immoderate menace to the State of Israel."

A weaponry dropped from an Israeli pitchy falls earlier hitting a gathering successful Dahiyeh, successful the confederate suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 28, 2025.  (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah denied firing the rockets, and accused Israel of seeking a pretext to proceed attacking Lebanon.

Lebanon’s authorities ordered each schools and universities successful Beirut’s confederate suburb of Hadath to adjacent for the day. Residents were seen fleeing the country successful cars and connected ft up of the strike.

Hezbollah began launching rockets, drones and missiles into Israel the time aft the Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught connected confederate Israel by its Hamas allies ignited the warfare successful Gaza. Palestinian militants killed astir 1,200 successful Israel and abducted 251 others during the 2023 attack.

The Israel-Hezbollah struggle exploded into all-out warfare past September erstwhile Israel carried retired waves of airstrikes and killed astir of the militant group’s elder leaders. The warring killed implicit 4,000 radical successful Lebanon and displaced astir 60,000 Israelis.

Under the ceasefire, Israeli forces were expected to retreat from each Lebanese territory by precocious January. The deadline was extended to Feb. 18, but Israel has remained successful 5 borderline locations portion carrying retired dozens of strikes connected what it said were Hezbollah targets successful confederate and eastbound Lebanon. Last week, Israeli airstrikes connected respective locations successful Lebanon killed six people.

Speaking successful Paris, Lebanon’s President, Joseph Aoun, said the Beirut country onslaught was a continuation "of Israel’s violations of the agreement" sponsored by France and the U.S.

During a associated quality league with Aoun, French President Emmanuel Macron called the onslaught "unacceptable," and promised to code it with Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump. Macron said that the U.S. tin exert unit connected Israel.

A U.S. State Department spokeswoman called connected Lebanon's authorities to act.

"Israel is defending its radical and interests by responding to rocket attacks from terrorists successful Lebanon," the spokeswoman, Tammy Bruce, said Friday. "We expect the Lebanese Armed Forces to disarm these terrorists to forestall further hostilities."

The U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said the escalation had created "a captious play for Lebanon and the wider region."

Israeli strikes successful different parts of Lebanon connected Friday killed 3 radical and wounded 18, including children and women, successful the confederate colony of Kfar Tibnit, said Lebanon's wellness ministry.

The strikes comes little than 2 weeks aft Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas with astonishment strikes that killed hundreds of radical successful Gaza. Earlier this month, Israel halted deliveries of food, fuel, medicine and humanitarian assistance to Gaza's astir 2 cardinal Palestinians.

Israel has vowed to escalate the warfare until Hamas returns 59 hostages it inactive holds — 24 of them believed to beryllium alive. Israel is demanding that the radical springiness up power, disarm and nonstop its leaders into exile.

Hamas has said it volition lone merchandise the remaining captives successful speech for Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

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Israel's violative successful the Strip has killed implicit 50,000 radical and wounded 114,000, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not accidental however galore were civilians oregon combatants.

The ministry said Friday that astir 900 person been killed successful Gaza since the ceasefire ended successful mid-March, including much than 40 implicit the past 24 hours.