"An urgent warning to those who are in Beirut's southern suburbs, particularly in the Hadath area: All those who are in the red-marked building on the attached map, as well as in the surrounding buildings, are close to Hezbollah's facilities,” the Israeli military wrote on X before the attack.
"You must evacuate".
The message led to panic and families were forced to flee. Shortly afterwards, smoke clouds could be seen over a building in the densely populated area after the air strike. There are still no reports of injuries.
In the warning, the Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah facilities in the Hadath area and urged residents to move at least 300 meters away from the site before the strike. Two warning attacks followed.
This is the third time that Beirut's southern suburbs have been subjected to Israeli attacks since the fragile ceasefire came into force between Israel and the militant Shia movement Hezbollah on November 27 last year.
Immediately after the attack, Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun asked the USA and France, guarantors of the ceasefire agreement, to persuade Israel to stop the attacks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that "Hezbollah used the building to store rockets". According to the Israeli military, the storage facility posed a "significant threat to the State of Israel”.
Earlier on Sunday, one person was killed in an Israeli drone attack on the southern Lebanese town of Halta, according to Lebanese health authorities.
