Israel intensifies Lebanon attacks and hits areas not in Hezbollah’s control. 23 hours ago. Lina SinjabMiddle East correspondent in Beirut. Getty Images. Israel has intensified its attacks on Lebanon this week, hitting areas outside of Hezbollah’s control on Tuesday.. Strikes without warning hit a vehicle north of Beirut and the Jnah neighbourhood in the heart of the capital.. Attacks also continued in the city’s southern suburbs and the country’s south, both where Hezbollah has a strong presence.. A building was destroyed on the road to Beirut’s airport after an evacuation order, and in the south, a strike hit a health facility, killing a paramedic, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.. Israel’s military said it had hit Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut and killed a senior commander and another senior figure from the Iran-backed armed group.. Follow live updates. Hezbollah joined the ongoing regional war on 2 March, sending missiles towards Israel, after the US and Israel attacked the armed group’s ally Iran on 28 February.. Israeli attacks have kept bombarding Lebanon as its troops have moved into the country’s south.. On Tuesday, a vehicle was targeted in the Mansourieh area, a predominantly Christian residential neighbourhood north of Beirut.. Meanwhile, the Jnah neighbourhood in the heart of the capital was attacked after midnight. The Lebanese health ministry said the Al-Zahraa Hospital had received and treated “a number of those injured in the air strike”.. Hassan Jalwan, who lives near Jnah, told AFP he heard several “big explosions” overnight.. “Nobody knows what’s happening,” he said, adding that “displaced people have been sleeping in the open” in the area.. The Dahieh neighbourhood to the south of Beirut, where Hezbollah has a strong presence, continues to be a target. A building was destroyed on Tuesday in Ghobeiry on the road to the airport following an evacuation order.. Also on Tuesday, Lebanon’s health ministry said at least seven people had been killed by Israeli strikes in the country’s south, including the paramedic.. The number of health workers who have been killed since the start of the war has now reached 53.. Earlier, the Lebanese army cleared its last positions in the south, pulling out from Ain Ibel and Rmeish villages a day after an army checkpoint was hit and a soldier was killed by an Israeli air strike, according to the Lebanese Armed Forces. The Israeli military has not appeared to have commented yet on the reported death.. However, some residents of the villages refuse to leave.. In the predominantly Christian village of Rmeish, Father Najib Al Amil appeared in a video on social media, where he said: “There is grass and soil. We rely on God and will stay in our village. We either all die together and lose our land or live and our villages will live with us.”. KAWNAT HAJU / AFP via Getty Images. Israel has announced its decision to control large swathes of land in southern Lebanon – up to the Litani River, abou
