Damage and reaction after Israeli strike on Beirut

Описание: (11 Mar 2026)
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++UPDATES STORYLINE WITH UPDATED INFORMATION ON STRIKE FROM HEALTH MINISTRY++

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Beirut - 11 March 2026
1. Various of damaged building, smoke caused by Israel strikes
2. Ambulance driving by
3. Mid of damaged building, smoke rising
4. Tilt-down from damaged building to damaged cars
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tariq Issa, local resident:
“Around 5:30 in the morning, an Israeli airstrike hit our area. We heard the sound of missiles—three missiles were launched near us. At first, we thought the strike was targeting the Jamaa al-Islamiya, or the Islamic Group so we started running in that direction. But we were surprised to find that the strike had actually hit our own street. What happened is that an apartment was targeted, and we don’t know who was living there. We hope that leaders and political parties will refrain from operating in densely populated neighborhoods among unarmed civilians."
6. Rescuers and paramedics helping wounded person
7. Fire vehicle at site
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khaled Obeida, witness:
"Thank God we’re still alive. Everything else can be replaced. Thank God we’re still alive."
9. Various of damaged building
STORYLINE:
Lebanon's Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in central Beirut early Wednesday wounded four people.

It was not immediately clear who was the target of the strike on an apartment in Beirut's Aicha Bakkar neighborhood as it came without prior warning, officials said.

The strike was the second in central Beirut in less than a week.

Local resident Tariq Issa said he heard the sound of missiles at around 5.30 a.m.

"At first, we thought the strike was targeting the Jamaa al-Islamiya, or the Islamic Group," he told The Associated Press.

"But we were surprised to find that the strike had actually hit our own street. What happened is that an apartment was targeted, and we don’t know who was living there."

The building that was hit is several buildings away from Dar al-Fatwa, the country’s highest Sunni Muslim religious authority.

The strike was in an area far from Beirut’s southern suburbs, where the Israeli military had issued evacuation warnings earlier in the renewed conflict with Hezbollah.

AP video by Fadi Tawil Hussein Malla and production by Sally Abou Aljoud

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