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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israel Strikes Residential Building in Beirut Using Banned Bombs – Nine Killed, 14 InjuredOctober 3, 2024<br></h1></div>
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Israel continued its aggression on Lebanon. (Photo: via video grab)
<p><strong>By <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff" title="Display all articles for Palestine Chronicle Staff">Palestine Chronicle Staff</a></strong> </p>
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<h3><span>Israel killed nine people and injured 14 others in a Beirut strike using internationally banned phosphorus bombs.</span></h3>
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<p><span>The Israeli army targeted early Thursday a residential area in
Beirut using internationally prohibited white phosphorus bombs resulting
in the death of nine people and the injury of 14 others, the Lebanese
Ministry of Health announced.</span></p>
<p><span>According to the Lebanese news network Al-Mayadeen, the Israeli
airstrike hit a center for the Islamic Health Society in a residential
building in the Bachoura neighborhood in Beirut. </span></p>
<p><span>Later in the day, the Islamic Health Society confirmed the hit
and mourned “seven martyrs” who it said were killed in the Israeli
airstrike on the Beirut locality of Zqaq el-Blat, according to the
Lebanese National News Agency (NNA).</span></p>
<p><span>The Society said identified the slain medics as Raja Ramez
Zreik, Mahdi Adnan Helbawi, Wissam Mahmoud Salhab, Ahmad Mohammad Hayek,
Mostafa Ali Moussawi, Sajed Shawki Sherri, and Hassan Ali Khansa.</span></p>
<p><span>This is the second time Israel has hit a residential area in
the capital that is not in the proximity of the southern district of
Beirut, which has been subjected to heavy bombardment since the start of
the Israeli aggression on Lebanon.</span></p>
<p><span>The first strike targeted a residential building early on
September 30 in the Cola neighborhood killing three members of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), including two
senior leaders.</span></p>
<h4><b>Targeting of Paramedics</b></h4>
<p><span>Since the start of its aggression on Lebanon two weeks ago,
Israel has repeatedly targeted paramedics across the country including
14 emergency health workers who were killed in airstrikes over the last
weekend.</span></p>
<p><span>On Monday alone, six paramedics from the Islamic Health Organization were killed in Bekaa.</span></p>
<h4><b>Banned Weapons</b></h4>
<p><span>Israel has extensively used white phosphorus bombs in its
one-year-long genocide on Gaza and in the south of Lebanon and it was
used this morning in its latest attack in the Bachoura neighborhood in
Beirut.</span></p>
<p><span>White phosphorus is a substance that burns at very high
temperatures when exposed to air, can continue to burn inside flesh,
causes horrific pain and serious injury, and cannot be extinguished by
water.</span></p>
<p><span>Phosphorous bombs are internationally prohibited under the
Geneva Convention of 1980, which prohibits the use of white phosphorus
as an incendiary weapon against humans and the environment.</span></p>
<h4><b>Border War</b></h4>
<p><span>Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, on October 7, 2023,
the Lebanese movement Hezbollah has engaged directly, but relatively in
a limited way in the war against the Israeli occupation.</span></p>
<p><span>Israel escalated its aggression with the cyber-terror attacks
on September 17 and 18, which claimed the lives of at least 37 people
including children, and injured around 3000 others.</span></p>
<p><span>This went hand in hand with a series of assassinations of
Hezbollah leaders, the last of which was that of the Secretary-General
of the resistance party Hassan Nasrallah on September 27.</span></p>
<p><span>These developments coincided with unprecedented bombings and
airstrikes by Israel’s army on different cities across Lebanon
particularly in the south, Bekaa and the southern district of Beirut.</span></p>
<p><span>The Ministry of Health indicated on Thursday that 1974 people were <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/live-blog-ansarallah-targets-tel-aviv-israel-threatens-iran-bombs-syria-lebanon-hezbollah-escalates-attacks-massacres-in-gaza-day-363/">killed</a> including 127 children, 261 women, and 9384 others were injured since the start of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon.</span></p>
<p><span>Israel has occupied parts of Lebanon for decades and has only
left the country in 2000, following stiff Lebanese resistance under
Hezbollah’s leadership.</span></p>
<p><span>Israel attempted to re-occupy Lebanon in 2006 but failed in what Lebanon considers a major victory against Israel.</span></p>
<p><span>Israel, however, continues to occupy parts of Lebanon, namely the Sheeba Farms region.</span></p>
<p><span>Hezbollah has vowed to recover every inch of Lebanon that has been occupied by Israel contrary to international law.</span></p>
<p><i><span>(PC, NNA, Al-Mayadeen)</span></i></p>
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