William Christou
Amid Israeli airstrikes on Beirut on Monday night, one hit just in front of the entrance of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, the largest public hospital in Lebanon. At least four were killed, including a child, 24 were injured in the strike, and the hospital suffered “major damage” from the blast.
Despite the strike, the hospital continued operating and is currently receiving the injured from the nearby strikes, a source at the hospital told the Guardian.
Israel stands accused of killing Saleh al-Arouri by drone strike in Hezbollah’s stronghold in the Lebanese capital.
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At least six people have died in Beirut’s worst street violence in 13 years, as hundreds of armed militia men took to the streets and much of the city was forced into lockdown by heavy fighting.
The bloody violence took on a sectarian tone that invoked images of the Lebanese civil war and alarmed residents who had long feared that the multiple crises ravaging the country could spark a deadly conflagration.
The trigger for the clashes in neighbourhoods near the justice courts, which left dozens more injured, was a protest by members of Amal and Hezbollah, two predominantly Shia political parties, against a judicial probe into the massive blast in the city’s port last year.
This is the second time that the judge appointed to investigate the port explosion has been pressured to resign. It would seem that those opposed to the investigation have the most exposure for being blamed over their failure to rectify the situation.
We follow the investigations into the 2020 Beirut port blast and discover an underworld that could provide clues to this tragic mystery.
