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At least 22 people were killed and 117 others injured in Israeli strikes on Beirut, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported on October 10, after an Israeli strike on a school housing Palestinians in Gaza killed dozens. .

The official Lebanese news agency NNA reported two evening air raids in central Beirut. The first targeted an eight-story building and the second a four-story building which completely collapsed following the strike, ANI reported.

A Lebanese security source cited by Reuters said at least one senior Hezbollah official was targeted in the attacks, which were the third in Beirut since Israel launched a military campaign in southern Lebanon last month targeting the Hezbollah militia allied with Iran and sparking fears of total collapse. -excluding regional war.

Hezbollah's Al Manar television reported after the strikes that an attempt to assassinate Wafiq Safa, a senior security official for the group, had failed. He said Safa was not inside any of the targeted buildings.

Hezbollah continued its rocket attacks on Israel on October 10. The army said several drones heading towards Israel had been intercepted.

Earlier on October 10, an Israeli strike on a school in the Gaza Strip killed at least 27 people, Palestinian medical officials said, while another Israeli strike hit the headquarters of Gaza peacekeepers. UN in southern Lebanon, prompting Italy to summon the Israeli ambassador.

The Israeli army said it carried out a “precise strike against terrorists” who had a command and control center built into the school.

“This is a new example of the systematic abuse of civilian infrastructure by the terrorist organization Hamas, in violation of international law,” said a military statement.

The Palestinian militant group Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the US and EU, has denied the accusations. People sheltering at the school said the strike hit a meeting of aid workers and injured 54 others.

Israel has continued to strike what it considers militant targets across Gaza as it battles Hamas militants, even as the war has widened to include Hezbollah in Lebanon amid growing tensions with Iran.

In another incident on October 10, the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon said an Israeli tank fired on its headquarters in the town of Naqoura, hitting a tower of observation and injuring two peacekeepers. The nationality of the injured peacekeepers has not been released.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission, known as UNIFIL, said in a statement statement that Israeli forces also fired on a nearby bunker where peacekeepers were sheltering, damaging vehicles and a communications system.

The Italian Defense Ministry summoned the Israeli ambassador in protest, and Defense Minister Guido Crosetto declared at a press conference that “the hostile acts committed and repeated by Israeli forces against the basis…could constitute war crimes”. Crosetto added that Italy had asked for an official explanation “because it was not a mistake.”

The French Foreign Ministry said that although no French soldiers were injured in the incident, it also demanded an explanation.

The Israeli military announced earlier on October 10 that it had eliminated another senior member of Hezbollah as it continued its attacks against the Iran-backed group.

Adham Jahout, a member of the Hezbollah terrorist network in the Golan, was killed in an airstrike in Syria's Quneitra region, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.

Jahout passed intelligence from Syrian regime sources to Hezbollah and facilitated operations against Israel in the Golan Heights, the Israeli military said.

Israel annexed the Golan Heights after capturing it from Syria in the 1967 Middle East War. The annexation was not recognized by most countries.

Separately, the Israeli army said on October 10 that it had eliminated two Hezbollah commanders in southern Lebanon and that its military planes had attacked ammunition depots in the Beirut region and southern Lebanon. The identities of the two commanders were not immediately revealed.

Hezbollah, a militant group and political party that controls much of southern Lebanon, is designated a terrorist organization by the United States, while the European Union blacklists its armed wing but not its party, which has seats in the Lebanese parliament.

The latest strikes came as the United States, Israel's main ally, warned of bombings in Lebanon similar to those that caused widespread destruction in Gaza, as Israel retaliated against Hamas following the deadly attack by the United States and European Union designated terrorist group on Israel in October. On December 7, 2023, this caused more than 1,100 deaths.

Israeli bombardments on central and northern Gaza in recent days have killed dozens of people and locked thousands in their homes, Palestinian officials say.

“There should not be any kind of military action in Lebanon that looks like Gaza and has results that look like Gaza,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on October 9.

The warning comes after US President Joe Biden stressed in an October 9 call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the need for a diplomatic arrangement for the return of Lebanese and Israeli civilians to their homes on both sides of the border. border.

The United States warned Israel on October 9 against launching military action in Lebanon like the one it took in Gaza, and US President Joe Biden emphasized during a call with the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu the need for a diplomatic arrangement for the return of the two countries. Lebanese and Israeli civilians at home on both sides of the border.

Biden also condemned Iran's ballistic missile attack on Israel on October 1, according to a White House statement.

Biden “affirmed Israel's right to protect its citizens against Hezbollah, which has fired thousands of missiles and rockets into Israel over the past year alone, while emphasizing the need to minimize harm to civilians, especially in densely populated areas of Beirut,” the statement said. » said the statement.