Israel has launched a strike on Beirut for the second time in days, further testing the shaky ceasefire with Hezbollah struck four months ago. <\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry said three people were killed, including a woman, and seven injured in the strike early Tuesday, which Israel said had targeted a Hezbollah militant. <\/p>\n
Two missiles hit the top three floors of a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon\u2019s national news agency NNA reported. Witnesses told Reuters that no evacuation warning was issued ahead of the strike and that families who lived there have now fled to other parts of the city. <\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s military said in a statement the militant had allegedly \u201crecently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them in planning a significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians.\u201d <\/p>\n
Lebanon\u2019s President Joseph Aoun condemned the attack. \u201cIsrael\u2019s persistence in its aggression requires us to exert more effort to address Lebanon\u2019s friends around the world and rally them in support of our right to full sovereignty over our land,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The US State Department said on Tuesday that Israel was defending itself from rocket attacks that came from Lebanon and that Washington blamed \u201cterrorists\u201d for the resumption of hostilities, Reuters reported. <\/p>\n
\u201cHostilities have resumed because terrorists launched rockets into Israel from Lebanon,\u201d a State Department spokesperson said in an email to Reuters, adding Washington supported Israel\u2019s response. <\/p>\n
The attack comes just days after Israel launched its first strike on the Lebanese capital since a ceasefire with Hezbollah came into effect in November. Israel accused Hezbollah of launching two rocket attacks from southern Lebanon that crossed Israel\u2019s border, a claim the Iran-backed group denied. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not allow firing on our communities, not even a drizzle \u2026 We will attack everywhere in Lebanon against any threat to the state of Israel, and we will ensure that all our residents in the north return to their homes safely,\u201d said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday. <\/p>\n
The Lebanese army called Friday\u2019s strike on the southern Dahieh neighborhood \u201ca blatant and repeated violation of Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and the security of its citizens, a challenge to international law, and a flagrant breach of the ceasefire agreement.\u201d <\/p>\n
The US-brokered ceasefire agreement brought about a significant reduction in violence following more than a year of cross-border strikes and months of a full-scale war. <\/p>\n
However, Israel has continued to conducted dozens of strikes \u2013 mostly in southern Lebanon \u2013 on what it calls Hezbollah targets, and maintains a military presence at multiple locations in southern Lebanon, despite having agreed to withdraw as part of the deal. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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