Israeli strikes bombarded Lebanon’s capital once more on Wednesday morning, because the Israeli navy issued numerous evacuation warnings for components of Beirut and big swathes of southern Lebanon.
Smoke rises from the positioning of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on March 4, 2026.
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The strikes on Beirut have been targeting the densely populated southern suburbs, together with Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold.
In Hazmieh, one other southern neighborhood of Beirut, the Consolation Lodge was struck with out warning earlier than daybreak Wednesday, an area council member advised ABC Information, confirming what Lebanese state media had been reporting.
ABC Information has reached out to the Israel Protection Forces for touch upon the lodge strike.
The IDF on Wednesday additionally ordered all residents of southern Lebanon south of the Litani River — which is round 18 miles north of the border with Israel — to evacuate to the north.
The IDF mentioned in a Wednesday publish to X that it focused “an underground Hezbollah weapon storage facility and extra command facilities in Beirut.”
-ABC Information’ Ghazi Balkiz, Morgan Winsor and Dorit Lengthy
