At least four deafening sonic booms were heard in Beirut on Saturday night (Eastern European Time), shaking buildings, rattling objects and sending people into the streets in a panic, according to the New York Times.
NYT journalist on the ground in Beirut, Abdi Latif Dahir, said the booms came after a few “relatively quiet nights in the city.”
The aftermath of an Israel Defence Forces strike in the area of Dahiye, Beirut, Lebanon earlier this week.Getty Images
It comes after an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon on Saturday killed three journalists who were covering the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, their TV stations said.
The Health Ministry in Beirut said 47 people had been killed and 112 wounded over the past 24 hours. It said 1,189 have been killed since March 2.
Lebanon’s Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine said nine paramedics were killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday, raising the toll among health care workers to 51.