Huge blasts in Beirut as IDF says it was targeting Hezbollah command centres

Описание: (3 Mar 2026)
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Beirut - 3 March 2026
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The Israeli military struck a building housing Al-Manar channel studios in Beirut’s southern suburbs following an evacuation warning, the channel said.

The Israeli military said it targeted “Hezbollah command centers and weapons storage facilities in Beirut.”

Plumes of smoke were seen billowing over the skyline early on Tuesday morning. No immediate details on casualties were available.

The strike followed Hezbollah missile and drone attacks on northern Israel shortly after midnight Sunday, prompting waves of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs and southern Lebanon, which killed at least 52 people and wounded 154, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

In a statement early Tuesday, Hezbollah said “confrontation is a legitimate right,” describing its firing of rockets toward Israel as "a reaction to the aggression, and adding that it had repeatedly warned that Israeli attacks “could not continue without a response.”

Israel has continued near-daily strikes, primarily in southern Lebanon, since a ceasefire was reached with Beirut in late 2024.

During the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli airstrikes targeted Al-Manar’s headquarters and transmission facilities in Beirut. The station continued broadcasting during the conflict despite the strikes.

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