Israeli forces bombed Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, for the second time within a week, killing at least three people, threatening a ceasefire that they agreed with Hezbollah four months ago.
The attack on the outskirts of Dahie, in the southern suburbs of Dahie in Beirut early on Tuesday injured at least seven people without warning, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Israeli forces claimed in a statement that Palestinian group Hamas targeted Hezbollah members who had helped them plan an impending attack on Israeli civilians. It provided no evidence.
There were no immediate comments from Hezbollah.
Lebanon President Joseph Own condemned the latest attack, calling it a “dangerous warning” of Israel’s intentions against his country.
“Israel’s tenacity in aggression requires more effort from us to speak to our Lebanese friends around the world and to rally them together to support our right to full sovereignty over our land,” Aoun said in a statement.
Videos from the aftermath of the bombing showed smoke feathers rising above Dahie.
They also damaged the upper three floors of the apartment building, with a pile of debris covering the cars under the building.
Surveillance cameras captured the moment of an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential building in Dahie, a southern suburb of Beirut. pic.twitter.com/oiopvh7snf
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Al Jazeera’s results serdar, reporting from Beirut, said rescue operations were continuing in Dahie and there was no information in either Israel or Lebanon regarding the identities of the targets and those killed.
Seldar said the latest attack is “very worried” for the Lebanese government, as it comes just three days after Israeli forces bombed Beirut for the first time since the ceasefire traded with Hezbollah in November.
The agreement, guaranteed by France and the United States, ceased the conflict for a year and required Israeli ground forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah’s fighters also called for retreat from the south, across the Ritani River and the United Nations, designating a temporary border, a blue line, and Lebanese forces to deploy there.
However, both sides are condemning each other’s violations.
Israel delayed the withdrawal of its troops promised in January, continuing to occupy the peaks of several hills in southern Lebanon. It also claims it has been attacking the country for almost a day, shocking Hezbollah’s fighters and weapons.
The forces launched an attack on Beirut on Friday, saying they were attacked by a rocket fired from Lebanon.
Hezbollah has denied any involvement in the rocket fire.
Celder of Al Jazeera said there was a significant difference between the two Israeli attacks on Friday and Tuesday.
“The Israelis say what happened on March 28 was retaliation against a rocket launched from the Lebanese side, but this time there was no rocket fire,” he said.
“So the problem now is that Israel continues to attack the country’s capital?” he asked. “The people of Beirut are very concerned. They say that the peace here is really fragile and that almost development can cause a ceasefire and cause another war.”
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem warned that if Israel’s attacks on Lebanon continued on Saturday, the group would ultimately resort to other alternatives if the Lebanese government doesn’t act to stop them.
Meanwhile, analysts blamed the US for Israel’s continued attack on Lebanon.
Phyllis Venice, a fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, told Al Jazeera that the Trump administration effectively illuminated Israel’s attacks not only on Lebanon but also on Syria and the occupied Palestinian territory.
“There’s no doubt that the Trump administration has made it very clear that it won’t criticise Israel. They won’t stop sending weapons that will allow these attacks to continue,” Venice said from Washington, DC.
“What we’re looking at now is an extension of the war on genocide that Israel was in Gaza to Lebanon, where they were not only attacking in the capital, but also expanding the buffer zone of the former United Nations,” she said.
Israel has now “unilaterally collapsed the ceasefire” in Lebanon, but the guarantor of the deal, both in France and the US — has recovered, and has continued Israeli attacks and taken punitive action, she added.
