At least 22 were killed and 117 injured on 10 October after Israeli airstrikes hit two residential buildings in the heart of the Lebanese capital, leveling one of the two.
According to Hebrew media, the target of the attacks was Wafiq Safa, the head of Hezbollah's Coordination and Liaison Unit in the party's political arm. However, the assassination attempt failed, per Hezbollah sources who spoke with Al Mayadeen.
The first airstrike hit the third floor of an eight-story residential building located between the densely populated areas of Ras al-Nabaa and Al-Nuwairi in central Beirut, leading to multiple casualties, with at least 22 confirmed dead and 117 injured.
Shortly after, a second airstrike hit a four-story building in the nearby Basta neighborhood, destroying it completely.
Thursday's escalation marks the third Israeli attack outside Beirut's southern suburbs, following previous attacks on the Kola and Bashoura neighborhoods of the city.
Israeli airstrikes have razed large swathes of Dahiye, Beirut's southern suburb. Attacks have also continuously hit Lebanon's southern and eastern regions, killing well over 2,000 people and displacing about one million.
In the south of Lebanon, the invading army has also launched direct attacks against troops from the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
“This morning, two peacekeepers were injured after an IDF Merkava tank fired its weapon toward an observation tower at UNIFIL's headquarters in Naqoura, directly hitting it and causing them to fall. The injuries are, fortunately, this time, not serious, but they remain in hospital,” the UN mission announced on Thursday.
According to Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, another two UNIFIL soldiers were injured on Friday, one of them critically, when an Israeli Merkava tank opened fire on a field hospital near the entrance to the UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura.