A southern Beirut neighbourhood is reeling from an Israeli airstrike, as bombardments intensify
Rescuers clear the rubble as they look for survivors at the site of an Israeli missile strike in Beirut on Friday. Photograph: Bilal Hussein/APA digger grappled with the piles of rubble: all that was left of two multistorey buildings in Dahiye, a densely populated neighbourhood and Hizbullah stronghold in southern Beirut.
When The Irish Times visited the site the morning after the strike, a small group of locals were sitting, mostly in silence, a street away from the blast site, waiting for news of loved ones missing under the rubble.
The Hizbullah-appointed public works and transportation minister Ali Hamieh visited the blast site in Dahiye on Saturday afternoon and told media present that the bombing of a residential building constituted a “war crime” and that Israel was “dragging the region into a war”. After prayers and chants in support of Imam Hussein, Hizbullah and Palestine, the three coffins draped in the group’s bright yellow flag were carried through the crowds.
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