Israel Strikes Cola Neighborhood Of Beirut In Apparent Assassination Attempt: Reports

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Several local media outlets on Monday reported that Israel struck a building in the Cola neighborhood or Beirut, Lebanon. Some reporters on social media described it as an ‘attempted assassination attempt’. Authorities have not yet confirmed the reported attack or whether Tel Aviv was behind it. This comes days after Hezbollah leader Nasrallah died in an Israeli airstrike.

Israel Strikes Cola Neighborhood Of Beirut In Apparent Assassination Attempt: Reports
Beirut after an Israeli airstrike last week

Several local media outlets on Monday reported that Israel struck a building in the Cola neighborhood or Beirut, Lebanon. Some reporters on social media described it as an ‘attempted assassination attempt’. Authorities have not yet confirmed the reported attack or whether Tel Aviv was behind it. This comes days after Hezbollah leader Nasrallah died in an Israeli airstrike.

The Middle East Observer cited Lebanese sources to report that the ‘occupation aircraft bombed a residential apartment in the Cola area in the center of the capital, Beirut’.

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“This is the Deepest Strike into the Lebanese Capital of Beirut in Decades, they must have been Aiming for an Important Target,” an open source intelligence monitor said on X, platfom formerly known as Twitter.

“Initial reports are suggesting that may have been an targeted assassination, though other details weren’t immediately known,” a third person added.

Israel Strikes Houthi Targets

On Sunday, Israel confirmed that it bombed Houthi targets in Yemen and executed further airstrikes in Lebanon. This came two days after an Israeli attack killed the Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

According to the IDF statement, the airstrikes on Yemen’s port of Hodeidah were a response to Houthi missile attacks on Israel in recent days.

“Through the attacked infrastructure and ports, the Houthi regime transfers Iranian weapons to the region, and supplies for military needs, and thus also oil,” the IDF said in the statement.

Israel on Sunday vowed to keep up its assault.”We need to keep hitting Hezbollah hard,” Israel’s military chief of staff Herzi Halevi said.