Israel said Monday it would once again target Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold mostly spared heavy attacks since April, as it stages its deepest incursion into Lebanon in two decades.
The UN Security Council is expected to hold an emergency meeting later Monday on Israel’s expansion of its operations in Lebanon, and the European Union called on Israel to “stop its military escalation”.
Iran, in stalled negotiations on an end to its wider war with the United States, said a Lebanon ceasefire remains a key condition for any deal.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz said they had ordered strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, a densely-populated area where Hezbollah holds sway.
“In light of the repeated violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon by the terrorist organisation Hezbollah and the attacks on our cities and citizens, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz have instructed
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