Overnight, in what Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called a “clear breach” of the November ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel struck an apartment building in Beirut, killing three and wounding seven others. The airstrike came without warning days after Israel launched an attack on Beirut on March 28, reported AP. Hezbollah had warned on March 29 that if Israel’s attacks on Lebanon continued and if Lebanon’s government did not act to stop them, the group would eventually resort to other alternatives.
The Israeli military claimed in a statement that the latest strike targeted a Hezbollah member who had been helping the Palestinian Hamas group in the Gaza Strip in attacks against Israel. It said the airstrike was “under the direction of the Shin Bet,” Israel’s domestic intelligence agency.
