Smoke rises after an Iranian drone was intercepted over the Bahrain Financial Harbour towers, which houses the Israeli embassy, in Manama, Bahrain, March 6. Reuters-Yonhap
Israel has struck southern Lebanon and Beirut again early Sunday and killed 12 more people, the Lebanese health ministry said, as the war in the Middle East keeps escalating.
Israeli officials said the strikes targeted commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “many surprises” for the next phase of the conflict.
Meanwhile, two border guards in Kuwait were killed when a swarm of missiles and drones hit the Gulf country.
Damaged apartment in the Ramada Plaza hotel building in the aftermath of an Israeli strike following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran in central Beirut, Lebanon, March 8. Reuters-Yonhap
On Saturday, an Israeli attack hit an oil storage facility in Tehran, which sent up pillars of fire that could be seen in Associated Press video as a glow against the night sky. It appeared to be the first time a civil industrial facility has been targeted in the war.
The war, which erupted on Feb. 28 after joint U.S.-Israeli strikes hit Iran, has so far killed at least 1,230 people in the Islamic Republic, more than 300 in Lebanon and around a dozen in Israel, according to officials.
Source: Korea Times News
