Israel ramps up attacks on Lebanon as officials study US ceasefire plan

Israeli aerial strikes flattened 5 buildings successful nan Lebanese superior Beirut’s confederate suburbs.

The Israeli subject has carried retired aerial raids successful nan suburbs of Beirut for nan 4th consecutive time arsenic Lebanese officials studied a US scheme for a ceasefire.

Israeli aerial strikes flattened 5 buildings successful nan Lebanese capital’s confederate suburbs connected Friday. One of them was located adjacent 1 of Beirut’s busiest postulation junctions, Tayouneh.

The Israeli subject said its combatant jets attacked munitions warehouses, a office and different infrastructure utilized by nan Lebanese group Hezbollah.

Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said nan Israeli subject had issued 2 forced removal orders earlier nan attacks.

“[Residents] are forced to time off their homes only to watch nan strikes travel successful and wonderment whether aliases not they person a location to return to. There are nary casualties because galore group near nan area and because of these removal orders,” she said.

“Human authorities groups person criticised these forced removal orders, saying astir of nan clip they don’t springiness group capable clip to leave,” Khodr added.

Meanwhile, Iran-aligned Hezbollah said it fired rockets astatine a group of Israeli soldiers successful Misgav Am and nan Yiftah barracks successful bluish Israel.

The Lebanese equipped group said successful a connection connected Telegram it besides attacked different group of Israeli soldiers pinch rockets connected nan eastbound outskirts of nan Lebanese municipality of Markaba.

Hezbollah besides said it attacked Israeli soldiers successful bluish Israel’s Sasa and Dishon.

Israel’s subject escalated its attacks connected Lebanon successful precocious September aft almost a twelvemonth of cross-border hostilities pinch nan Lebanese equipped group Hezbollah successful parallel pinch nan Gaza war. It says it intends to unafraid nan return location of tens of thousands of Israelis, forced to evacuate from bluish Israel nether Hezbollah fire.

Israel’s attacks connected Lebanon person forced much than 1 cardinal Lebanese to fly their homes, igniting a humanitarian crisis.

It has dealt Hezbollah superior blows, sidesplitting its leader Hassan Nasrallah and different commanders. Hezbollah has kept up rocket attacks into Israel and its fighters person been battling Israeli troops successful nan south.

Ceasefire talks

Diplomacy attempting to scope a ceasefire has shown tentative signs of advancement this week.

The Reuters news agency reported connected Thursday that nan US ambassador to Lebanon had presented a draught ceasefire connection to Lebanon’s parliament speaker Nabih Berri, citing 2 elder governmental sources. Berri is endorsed by Hezbollah to discuss and met nan elder Iranian charismatic Ali Larijani connected Friday. The AFP news agency reported that elder Lebanese officials are reviewing nan US proposal.

A elder Iranian charismatic said connected Friday that Iran would backmost immoderate determination made by Lebanon successful truce talks, signalling Tehran wants to spot an extremity to nan conflict.

Asked astatine a news convention whether he had travel to Beirut to undermine nan US truce plan, Larijani said, “We are not looking to sabotage anything. We are aft a solution to nan problems.”

“We support successful each circumstances nan Lebanese government. Those who are disrupting are Netanyahu and his people,” Larijani added, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

World powers person said a Lebanon ceasefire must beryllium based connected UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a erstwhile 2006 warfare betwixt Hezbollah and Israel. Its position require Hezbollah to move weapons and fighters northbound of nan Litani River, which runs immoderate 20km (30 miles) northbound of nan border.

Israel has demanded nan state to attack, should Hezbollah break immoderate statement – a request that Lebanon has rejected.

In a gathering pinch Larijani, Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati urged support for Lebanon’s position connected implementing 1701 and called this a priority, on pinch halting nan “Israeli aggression”, a connection from his agency said.

Larijani stressed “that Iran supports immoderate determination taken by nan government, particularly solution 1701”, nan connection said.

Meanwhile, connected Thursday, Eli Cohen, Israel’s power curate and a personnel of its information cabinet, told Reuters that prospects for a ceasefire were nan astir promising since nan conflict began.

At slightest 3,386 group person been killed and 14,417 wounded successful Israeli attacks connected Lebanon since October 2023.

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Al Jazeera and news agencies