A hostile Israeli attack on Ramlet al-Bayda beach in Beirut resulted in seven fatalities and twenty-one injuries. The statement, issued by the Ministry, referenced the public beach where displaced individuals were sleeping outdoors since the resumption of conflict between Israel and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement. Local media reported footage depicting chaos and smoke along the coastline following the assault.
This marked the third attack in downtown Beirut since the onset of the Middle Eastern war, which began with U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran on February 28th. Early this morning, Hezbollah announced the launch of dozens of rockets into northern Israel.
The target was an Israeli military intelligence base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Hezbollah stated they targeted the Givat (headquarters of Unit 8200, a part of the Israeli military intelligence service “AMAN”) base near Tel Aviv with a series of advanced-generation rockets. Simultaneously, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that Iran had conducted a “joint and integrated” aerial operation with its ally Hezbollah, directed at Israel.
This represented the first coordinated attack since the war’s beginning. Previously today, Israeli television Channel 12 and the online edition of “The Times of Israel” reported that Hezbollah had fired approximately 100 rockets. “The Times of Israel” described the attack as the “largest assault by Hezbollah on Israel” this month, following a period of quiet in the fighting.
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