The Israeli Army has carried out an aerial bombardment this Sunday on what it identified as a "command center" of the Shiite party-militia Hezbollah located in southern Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. The operation is presented as a response to the launch of projectiles against Israeli territory and occurs at an extremely sensitive moment in the negotiations between the United States and Iran, the main supporter of the Lebanese group, which had already warned that any offensive in that area would be intolerable.
"The Israel Defense Forces have launched a precision strike against a command center of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Dahiya, Beirut," the Army announced on social media, along with a video showing the impact of the attack.
In the same statement, the Army pointed out that "the attacked command center was used by Hezbollah terrorists to promote terrorist plots against the citizens of the State of Israel and the IDF forces operating in southern Lebanon," and recalled that the offensive comes hours after "the terrorist organization Hezbollah launched air attacks against the territory of the State of Israel."
According to the Israeli Armed Forces, three projectiles fell on its territory early in the morning, in a new episode of exchange of fire with southern Lebanon. In this area, Israel has ordered the evacuation of almost thirty towns in recent hours and has carried out bombings that have hit about a dozen towns, causing the death of one civilian and several injured, according to the official Lebanese news agency NNA.
Tehran has unequivocally subordinated the signing of any pact with Washington to the immediate cessation of Israeli attacks in Lebanon. Within this context, Dahiya is considered a particularly unacceptable target for Iran, as it is a densely populated urban area and, moreover, the core of strategic operations of its main ally in the country, practically a political and military extension of the Islamic Republic on Lebanese territory.
The attack on Dahiya also occurs after the two most radical members of the Israeli cabinet, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intensify the military campaign against Hezbollah and even extend it to the aforementioned neighborhood in southern Beirut.