BEIRUT / GAZA: After a late-night attack that killed at least 18 people close to a vital hospital, Israel launched several bombardments on the Lebanese capital during the course of the last day, one month into its onslaught.
Video shows smoke and dust plumes rising over the southern suburbs of Beirut after four strikes occurred there on Tuesday.
After the Israeli army ordered the area to be evacuated, the attacks compelled Hezbollah to end a news conference.
Minutes after reporters departed, an Israeli attack struck a target hundreds of meters (yards) from the event, according to an AFP video journalist.
An eleven-story apartment complex was destroyed in another incident in the Ghobeiri neighborhood.
Horrible photos of malnourished Palestinians being forced moved in north Gaza
The Lebanese Red Cross said that three paramedics were hurt in a strike on Nabatiyeh while conducting a rescue operation in cooperation with UN forces in the southern part of the country.
Following heavy shelling the day before, which killed 63 people and injured 234 others—including four children—the bombardment came after the strike on Rafic Hariri Hospital, the nation’s largest public health facility, which is situated in the Jnah area, a few kilometers from the city center.
The heavily populated neighborhood, which has experienced a surge in residents evacuated from places further south, was not under an evacuation notice.
According to the hospital’s director, the strike damaged some areas of the facility, shattering glass and destroying solar panels. On Tuesday, however, searchers were still searching the debris for survivors after the impact destroyed four surrounding buildings.
Migration out of northern Gaza
Meanwhile, a whole community in northern Gaza has been forcibly displaced, depriving them of food, water, and other necessities for survival for the past eighteen days, resulting in horrifying scenes.
As intense gunfire rages around them, Al Jazeera captured images of individuals passing through checkpoints with white flags.
Modern security cameras and metal detectors are installed at the checkpoints. Many women and children were arrested at these checkpoints, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent who spoke with those who passed through them.
In the northern neighborhood of Jabalia, which has been the scene of recent fighting, multiple homes were detonated and four Palestinians were killed in strikes on Monday, according to Gaza’s civil defense service.
According to UN data, 396 assistance trucks have entered Gaza this month, significantly fewer than the 3,003 that were seen in September, raising concerns about the possibility of famine in the region.
Jabalia “is being wiped out,” according to a displaced resident.
