The airstrikes followed a day of clashes on the Israel-Lebanon border that claimed the lives of eight Israeli soliders, the deadliest losses suffered by the Israeli military on the Lebanon front in the past year.
Israel bombed central Beirut in the early hours of Thursday, killing at least six people, after its forces suffered their deadliest day on the Lebanese front in a year of clashes against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah . At least six people were killed and seven wounded, Lebanese health officials said. A photo being circulated on Lebanese WhatsApp groups, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed a heavily damaged building with its first floor on fire.
Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, said about 1.2 million Lebanese had been displaced by Israeli attacks. Israel also carried out an airstrike on a residential building in the west of Syria's capital Damascus on Wednesday, killing four people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Britain-based war monitor said one of them was Hassan Jaafar al-Qasir, son-in-law of the slain Hezbollah leader.
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