According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, an Israeli raid on the Jnah neighborhood resulted in five deaths and 21 injuries. Two other people died in a strike targeting a vehicle in the Khaldeh region, south of Beirut.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday, April 1st, that Israeli strikes had caused a total of seven deaths, five in Beirut and two in the south of the Lebanese capital.
“The raid carried out by the Israeli enemy on the Jnah neighborhood in Beirut, according to initial reports, resulted in five deaths and 21 injuries,” the ministry wrote in a statement. According to a security source cited by AFP, the Israeli strikes on Jnah targeted four parked cars on a street.
On Wednesday, AFP journalists heard three explosions in the capital, a result of naval bombardments by Israeli warships on the Jnah neighborhood, as reported by Lebanon’s official National News Agency (Ani).
Context: Reports of casualties and damages from Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon.
Fact Check: Israel claimed to have targeted a high-ranking Hezbollah commander in the recent strikes.
The Ministry of Health also stated that an Israeli strike “targeting a vehicle in the Khaldeh region, south of Beirut, resulted in two deaths and three injuries among the civilian population.”
Shortly before this announcement, Ani reported that several missiles fired by an Israeli drone had hit a car on a major road south of Beirut on Tuesday, with ambulances and firefighters on site, but no casualties reported at that time.
The Israeli army announced late Tuesday into Wednesday that they had targeted a “senior commander” of Hezbollah and a “high-ranking terrorist” in two separate assaults “in the Beirut region,” without specifying if the second target was also part of the Lebanese Islamist movement, nor revealing the precise location of the attacks.
Context: Recent Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah members.
Fact Check: The ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has resulted in over 1,200 deaths in the past month, according to the Ministry of Health’s figures.
