New strikes targeted the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Friday morning, while sirens sounded in northern Israel, calling on the population to take cover from jets of “projectiles“from Lebanon. Le Figaro provides an update on the latest events in the conflict.

New strikes on Beirut

New strikes targeted the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Friday morning, causing a cloud of grey smoke to billow over the city. Beirutaccording to AFPTV footage, after a call to evacuate issued by the Israeli army.

The Lebanese national news agency Ani reported two strikes carried out by “an Israeli drone over the Ghobeiry district, before a “third very violent strike” carried out by the Israeli air force, which destroyed a building near the local municipality. Earlier Avichay Adraee, the Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesman, had called on Ghobeiry’s residents to leave the area, assuring that they were “near Hezbollah-affiliated facilities and interests”..

The southern suburbs, strongholds of the pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah which has been targeted by the Israeli army for several weeks, has been largely emptied of its inhabitants, although some people occasionally return during the day to inspect their homes or businesses. The Lebanese news agency Ani also reported Israeli air strikes during the night on the southern town of Nabatiye.

Israeli army confirms targeting of Nabatiye area

For its part, the Israeli army said on Friday morning that it had targeted the previous day in the Nabatiye area some “command centers of Hezbollah’s elite Al-Radwan unit, as well as rocket launchers which fired into northern Israel on Thursday.

It also reported the sounding of sirens in northern Israel, particularly in the Bay of Haifa, assuring that it had intercepted “two projectiles from Lebanon on Friday.