7 Hezbollah affiliates killed in rare Israeli strike on central Beirut – National

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7 Hezbollah affiliates ******* in rare ******** strike on central Beirut – National

An ******** airstrike on an apartment in central Beirut ******* seven Hezbollah-affiliated civilian first responders. ******* has been pounding areas of the country where the militant group has a strong presence since late September, but has rarely struck in the heart of the capital.

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There was no warning before the strike late Wednesday, which hit an apartment in central Beirut not far from the ******* Nations headquarters, the prime minister’s office and parliament. Hezbollah’s civil defense unit said seven of its members were *******.

The Lebanese Red Cross, meanwhile, said an ******** strike wounded four of its paramedics and ******* a Lebanese army soldier as they were evacuating wounded people from the south. It said the convoy near the village of Taybeh, which was accompanied by Lebanese troops, was targeted Thursday despite coordinating its movements with U.N. peacekeepers.

In a separate development, the ******** military ordered the evacuation of villages and towns in southern Lebanon that are north of a ******* Nations-declared buffer zone established after the 2006 war. The warnings issued Thursday signaled a possible broadening of *******’s incursion into southern Lebanon, which until now has been confined to areas close to the border.

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At least eight ******** soldiers were ******* in clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, where ******* announced the start of what it says is a limited ground incursion earlier this week. The region was meanwhile bracing for ******** retaliation following an Iranian ballistic missile *******.

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Montrealers with family in Lebanon concerned about *******-Hezbollah conflict

Residents reported a sulfur-like smell following strike in Beirut, and Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency accused ******* of using phosphorous ******, without providing evidence. Human rights groups have in the past accused ******* of using white phosphorus incendiary shells on towns and villages in southern Lebanon. The ******** military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Hezbollah has an armed wing with tens of thousands of fighters but it also has a political movement and a network of charities staffed by civilians.

In a separate development, Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they had launched two drones at Tel Aviv overnight. The military said it identified two drones off the coast of the bustling metropolitan area, ********* one of them down while the other fell in the Mediterranean Sea.

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The escalating ********* in Lebanon has opened a second front in the conflict between ******* and Iran-backed militants that began nearly a year ago with ******’ surprise Oct. 7 ******* from the Gaza Strip into *******.

The ******** military said Thursday that it ******* a senior ****** leader in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip around three months ago. It said that a strike on an underground compound in northern Gaza ******* Rawhi Mushtaha and two other ****** commanders.

There was no immediate comment from ******. Mushtaha was a close associate of Yahya Sinwar, the top leader of ****** who helped mastermind the Oct. 7 *******. Sinwar is believed to be alive and in hiding inside Gaza.

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In recent weeks, Israelis strikes in Lebanon have ******* Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and several of his top commanders. Hundreds more airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon since mid-September have ******* at least 1,276 people, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

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The ******** military said Thursday that it had struck around 200 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon, including weapons storage facilities and observation posts. It said the strikes ******* at least 15 Hezbollah fighters. There was no independent confirmation.

Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes, as ******* has warned people to evacuate from around 50 villages and towns in the south, telling them to relocate to areas that are around 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the border and considerably farther north than a U.N.-declared buffer zone.

******* says it is targeting Hezbollah after nearly a year of rocket attacks that began on Oct. 8 and have displaced some 60,000 Israelis from communities in the north. ******* has carried out retaliatory strikes over the past year that have displaced tens of thousands on the Lebanese side.

The vast majority of recent strikes have been in areas where Hezbollah has a strong presence, including the southern suburbs of Beirut known as the Dahiyeh. But ******* has also carried out strikes in ************ ******** camps in Lebanon, and a strike in central Beirut earlier this week ******* three ************ militants.

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Hezbollah, ****** and the Houthis are part of the Iran-led Axis of Resistance, which also includes armed groups in Syria and Iraq. They have launched attacks on ******* in solidarity with the Palestinians, drawing retaliation in a cycle that has repeatedly threatened to set off a wider conflict.

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The region once again appears on the brink of such a conflict after Iran’s missile ******* on Tuesday, which it said was a response to the ******** of Nasrallah, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general who was with him, and Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of ******, who was ******* in an ********** in Tehran in July that was widely blamed on *******.

Both ******* and the ******* States have said there will be severe consequences for the missile *******, which lightly wounded two people and ******* a ************ in the occupied West Bank. The ******* States has rushed military assets to the region in support of *******.

Jeffery reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press staff writers Abby Sewell in Beirut and Zeina Karam in London contributed to this report.

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