{"id":24122,"date":"2024-10-03T07:42:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T07:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=24122"},"modified":"2024-10-03T09:39:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T09:39:07","slug":"israeli-fighter-jets-bomb-downtown-beirut-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/10\/israeli-fighter-jets-bomb-downtown-beirut-overnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli fighter jets bomb downtown Beirut overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; At least 5 people have been killed and 8 wounded in an Israeli air strike on a building in central Beirut, Lebanese officials have said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-18fde0d6-0 dlWCEZ\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div>\n<p>The multi-storey block in Bachoura allegedly housed a Hezbollah-affiliated health center, which Israel&#8217;s military said was hit in a &#8220;precision&#8221; attack.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first Israeli strike close to Beirut&#8217;s center &#8211; just meters away from Lebanon&#8217;s parliament, reported BBC. There were five other air strikes overnight against targets in the southern suburb of Dahieh.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said\u00a0eight soldiers had been killed\u00a0in combat in southern Lebanon, its first losses since the start of ground operations against the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah said it had destroyed Israeli tanks during the fighting and insisted it had enough men and ammunition to push back the forces.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the IDF announced that more infantry and armoured troops had joined the operation seeking to dismantle what it called \u201cterrorist infrastructure\u201d in Lebanese border villages.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after US President Joe Biden pushed back against Israel, saying \u201cthe answer is no\u201d when it comes to a plan the Netanyahu Government is reportedly mulling in revenge against Iran for this week\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has urged a ceasefire but Israel seems in no mood to pull back.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has said Iran needs to pay for its almost 200 strong rocket attack in which one man died. Seven people died in an attack at a Tel Aviv tram stop at a similar time which Hamas has now claimed responsibility for.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s relatively new president Massoud Pezeshkian has said his country is \u201cnot looking for war,\u201d but if Israel retaliates Tehran will have a \u201cstronger response\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h6 class=\"media image\"><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 5 people have been killed and 8 wounded in an Israeli air strike on a building in central Beirut, Lebanese officials have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":24123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,387,16,194,338,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-topics","category-report","category-world","category-middle-east","category-news_","category-headline"],"views":38,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24139,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24122\/revisions\/24139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}