{"id":480949,"date":"2026-06-07T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480949\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:29:11","slug":"israel-escalates-war-against-hezbollah-with-airstrikes-on-beirut-suburbs-us-israel-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480949\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel escalates war against Hezbollah with airstrikes on Beirut suburbs | US-Israel war on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel has carried out airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, the most serious escalation in its war with Hezbollah since a ceasefire was established in mid-April<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The strike hit two apartments in two separate buildings, Lebanon\u2019s state news agency reported, killing two people and wounding 11, according to an initial death toll.<\/p>\n

The Israeli prime minister\u2019s office said that the Israeli military had struck \u201cterrorist headquarters\u201d in the southern suburbs \u201cin response to Hezbollah\u2019s firing at Israeli territory\u201d. Israel said that it intercepted Hezbollah<\/a> rocket fire at northern Israel on Sunday morning, though the armed group did not claim responsibility for the attacks.<\/p>\n

The attacks showered the streets in rubble and caused a wave of people to flee the southern suburbs in fear of further strikes.<\/p>\n

First responders inspect damage after the Israeli strike. Photograph: AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The strikes on Beirut came just days after a ceasefire proposal agreed by the Lebanese government and Israel was rejected by Hezbollah. Washington had previously asked Israel to not strike Beirut<\/a>, though Israeli media reported that the US had been informed before Sunday\u2019s strike.<\/p>\n

Iran had also previously threatened that any attack on Beirut would be met with its own attack on northern Israel<\/a>. It had yet to comment on Israel\u2019s attack on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Fighting in Lebanon started on 2 March when Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran\u2019s late supreme leader Ali Khamenei<\/a>, triggering an Israeli invasion. Israeli strikes have killed more than 3,613 people in Lebanon, while Hezbollah has killed at least 30 Israeli soldiers in Lebanon and 3 Israeli civilians.<\/p>\n

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The skirmishes in Lebanon have been an obstacle for Iran-US negotiations, as Tehran insists that Lebanon be included in a broader ceasefire deal. On Sunday, Trump told NBC News he was not demanding that Lebanon be part of any peace deal with Iran, claiming again that such an agreement, which has so far proved elusive, was near.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they\u2019d like \u200bto see it, but I\u2019m not demanding,\u201d Trump said in the interview recorded on Friday. He added: \u201cWe\u2019re very close to a deal, or I\u2019m going \u200cto \u2060blow the hell out of them [Iran].\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the strike on Sunday, Israel had issued a forced evacuation order for most of the city of Tyre, one of the largest cities in southern Lebanon which is hosting thousands of people displaced from villages in the surrounding area. The Israeli army said that it would soon begin striking Hezbollah infrastructure in the city, exempting Tyre\u2019s Christian quarter from the evacuation order.<\/p>\n

Israel also carried out airstrikes across the south of Lebanon, while Hezbollah claimed responsibility for rocket and artillery barrages against Israeli troops in the Nabatieh area. Fighting has been concentrated around the city of Zawtar al-Sharqiya after Israel took the Beaufort Castle<\/a> along the route to Nabatieh, a large city in south Lebanon that is has been encircling.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the Israeli military killed two Lebanese army soldiers and an army captain in a strike on their vehicle. The Lebanese army is not party to the Hezbollah-Israel war.<\/p>\n

The government of Lebanon and Israel are negotiating directly in Washington in an attempt to reach a comprehensive ceasefire. Hezbollah, which is the party fighting with Israel, is not participating in talks and in recent days has said it will not agree to any ceasefire deal that does not include a withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon and an end to Israeli strikes across the country, not just in Beirut.<\/p>\n

It is unclear how negotiations in Washington will be affected by Israel\u2019s latest strikes on Beirut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel has carried out airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, the most serious escalation in its war…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-480949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}