At least three martyred in new Israeli aggression on Beirut despite truce

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said in a brief statement that at least three people lost their lives and seven others sustained injuries in the Israeli attack on Beirut’s Sfeir area.

The local al-Mayadeen television news channel reported that the airstrike targeted a densely populated area at around 3:30 a.m. local time (0030 GMT) on Tuesday, destroying a building and damaging nearby structures.

The report added that the Lebanese army had arrived at the scene and set up a security cordon in the vicinity of the blast.

Civil defense teams and ambulances also rushed to the spot, rescuing people from under the rubble and transporting the injured to hospitals.

The Zionist regime’s military later announced in a statement that it targeted a member of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement “who had recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them.”

A joint statement released by the Zionist regime’s military and the regime’s so-called internal security service, Shin Bet, alleged that the aerial attack had targeted a leading Hezbollah figure in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Informed sources, however, dismissed the claim, and told al-Mayadeen TV that an ordinary member of Hezbollah had been martyred in the strike.

The Zionist regime’s airstrike marks the second such attack on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital.

On Thursday, the Zionist regime’s army targeted the southern Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood for the first time since a ceasefire went into effect in late November between Israel and Hezbollah.

And now, with this second attack, it seems this is Zionist regime’s new strategy and the occupying regime is not going to stop.

Just two days ago, Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem warned that if Israel continues attacking the group or Lebanon’s capital, the resistance movement will retaliate accordingly.

After enduring substantial losses over almost 14 months of conflict and not achieving its aims in the offensive against Lebanon, Israel had no choice but to agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah. The ceasefire was implemented on November 27.

Since the initiation of the agreement, the occupying forces have been conducting attacks on Lebanon, violating the ceasefire, which encompasses airstrikes across the Arab nation.

On January 27, Lebanon declared its decision to prolong the ceasefire with Zionist regime until February 18.