Air strikes hit south Beirut yesterday, crumpling an 11-storey building, as Israel kept up its deadly bombardment in south Lebanon.
The Lebanese health ministry said Israeli strikes killed five Hezbollah-affiliated paramedics.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) said Israeli warplanes carried out successive rounds of strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs from early morning until evening, including on two buildings closer to the city centre.
AFPTV footage showed plumes of smoke over the southern suburbs.
NNA said Israeli strikes also hit multiple targets in south Lebanon. An AFP photographer captured the moment a missile struck an 11-storey building housing shops, a gym and apartments on a usually busy street in south Beirut’s Shiyah district.
The impact sparked a fireball and caused the structure to collapse in on itself, littering the street with debris.
In south Lebanon, NNA said Israeli troops entered the village of Deir Mimas, around 2.5km from the border, for the first time.
Fire and smoke erupt from a building just after an Israeli air strike in Beirut’s southern Shiyah neighbourhood yesterday.
