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IDF pounds Beirut after Hezbollah’s Simhat Torah eve rocket fire at central Israel

The Times of Israel reports: “Lebanon state media reported 17 Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, with six buildings leveled and the vacated offices of a Hezbollah-linked broadcaster hit on Wednesday, after the Lebanese terror group fired rockets at central Israel as the country began marking the Simhat Torah holiday.

AFPTV footage showed a massive explosion followed by smaller blasts in the southern suburbs following an Israeli army evacuation warning for the area, where Hezbollah holds sway.

The official National News Agency (NNA) reported at least 17 Israeli raids, marking one of the most intensive nights of strikes targeting the area in the past month.

Six buildings were destroyed around the suburb of Laylaki, NNA said, calling the raids ‘the most violent in the area since the beginning of the war.’

The strikes came shortly after the Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic-language spokesman, Avichay Adraee, issued evacuation warnings on social media platform X…”

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