Israel army targets building in Beirut's Bashoura with three strikes

Missiles hit a building in the Beirut neighborhood of Bashoura, near the center of the city, on Thursday, after the Israeli military issued a warning of an incoming strike.

An AFPTV live broadcast showed dark smoke rising into the sky above the heart of the Lebanese capital, and an apparent fire started by the first missile impact.

This is the fourth strike in central Beirut since the beginning of the war between Hezbollah and Israel on March 2.

The Israeli military had warned it would strike the building and said it was a Hezbollah facility.

"You are located near a facility of the terrorist organization Hezbollah, which the Israeli Defense Forces will be targeting," military spokesman Avichay Adraee said on X, warning residents of Beirut's Bashoura neighborhood to immediately move at least 300 meters away from the targeted building and those adjacent to it.