Palestinian leaders killed in an Israeli attack in Beirut – NRK Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that three leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were killed in an Israeli drone attack on an apartment in the Al-Kula area in Beirut.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is the second largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization, and fights with weapons for the Palestinian state, not the two-state solution.

Eyewitnesses told Reuters that early Monday night they heard a loud sound and saw smoke rising from a hole on the top floor of a residential building, and it appeared that the attack was very targeted.

The building is located near Al-Kula Intersection, which is a well-known intersection about ten minutes away from downtown Beirut.

This is the first time since 2006 that Israel has bombed Beirut outside the southern suburbs, where Hezbollah is based.

On Monday morning, residents contacted by NRK said that the attack frightened them, and that they now felt nervous that Israel would step up to strike other areas that had been outside the danger zone until now.

Hamas leader killed

The Popular Front stated on the Telegram messaging service that the person killed in Beirut was its leader political office, Muhammad Abd; Military commander of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Lebanon, Imad Odeh; And Abdel Rahman Abdel Al. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine did not mention the role the latter played.

A Lebanese security source told AFP that at least four people were killed.

– At least four people were killed in an Israeli drone attack that targeted an apartment she owned Islamic group In downtown Beirut, according to the source.

The Israeli army wrote on Telegram that it shot down several attempts to launch air strikes against Israel from Lebanese territory during Monday night and Monday morning.

Hamas wrote on Monday morning on the Telegram application that its leader in Lebanon, Fathi Sharif Abu Al-Amin, was also killed on Monday night.

According to Hamas, he was killed in an Israeli air strike on the Al-Bass refugee camp in southern Lebanon, near the city of Tyre.

Israeli Air Force fighter jets also attacked “dozens of missile launchers and buildings where weapons were stored in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon,” according to a statement issued by the Israeli military on the Telegram messaging service on Monday evening. Al Jazeera wrote that at least five were killed there.

A million fugitives could be sent

On Sunday, at least 105 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, and 359 others were injured, according to figures from the Ministry of Health in Beirut. It also witnessed a week of Israeli air strikes on Lebanon. The week began on Monday, September 23, which has since become the bloodiest day in Lebanon's history Lebanese Civil War.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Sunday that the attack could lead to the displacement of one million people. Half a million displaced people have already been reported, among the many Syrian refugees who have lived in Lebanon in recent years.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has been visiting Lebanon since Sunday evening.

He met with Prime Minister Najib Mikati late Sunday evening, then said that Paris was working to “immediately stop” Israeli attacks.

France and Lebanon have historically close relations, and French President Emmanuel Macron has provided his support to Lebanon in the conflict. Lately he has been praying Both Hezbollah to stop attacking Israel, and Israel not to escalate in Lebanon.