By The Telegraph (World News) | Created at 2024-09-30 07:05:38 | Updated at 2024-09-30 09:29:56
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Israel has expanded its war on Hezbollah to central Beirut for the first time since the conflict began in October 2023 in the wake of the Hamas-led attacks.
An Israeli air strike levelled a residential apartment building in Cola, a neighbourhood within Beirut’s central city limits, at around 1am local time on Monday.
According to Lebanese media, the strike killed four people, including three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
An official from Lebanon’s civil defence said that a member of the Al-Jamāʻah al-islāmīyah Sunni militant group was also killed in the attack.
Videos showed ambulances and a crowd gathered near the targeted building, which is next to a busy thoroughfare lined with shops.
Cola is a mainly Sunni Muslim district that is located next to a large Palestinian refugee camp and is Beirut’s major transport hub.
