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New strike on Beirut southern suburbs

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A new Israeli air strike has targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs this morning, AFP reported citing state media.

AFPTV footage showed plumes of smoke rising from a building in the area.

“Hostile warplanes carried out an air raid on the southern suburbs,” the National News Agency said, a day after the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of the area.

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