Lebanon president urges US and France to press Israel to halt attacks
Aoun condemned an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital earlier in the evening, and called on “the United States and France, as guarantors of the ceasefire agreement, to assume their responsibilities and compel Israel to halt its attacks immediately”.
The Israeli strike hit south Beirut on Sunday after Israel ordered civilians to evacuate the densely populated district, an AFP journalist reported.
A plume of smoke billowed over a building in the Hadath neighbourhood after the strike, the journalist reported. It was the third time the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital have been hit since a fragile ceasefire took effect between Israel and Hezbollah on November 27.
Earlier, Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli drone strike on a border town on Sunday killed one person.
In a statement, it reported “one martyr” from “the drone strike launched by the Israeli enemy on the town of Halta” in southern Lebanon.
Local media said the man was killed while working