{"id":16194,"date":"2025-04-28T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/israeli-airstrike-rocks-southern-beirut-after-military-issues-evacuation-warning\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:04:24","slug":"israeli-airstrike-rocks-southern-beirut-after-military-issues-evacuation-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/israeli-airstrike-rocks-southern-beirut-after-military-issues-evacuation-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli airstrike rocks southern Beirut after military issues evacuation warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9zug071004p26qga1st8y99@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            An Israeli airstrike rocked southern Beirut on Sunday soon after the military issued an evacuation warning for the Lebanese capital.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9zvgu8u000u356mdqy5855c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Footage from Reuters showed a huge plume of smoke rising from the area shortly after 6:00 p.m. (11 a.m. ET). It is unclear if the attack caused damage or casualties.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9zvgu8v000v356mmasa4f2p@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The target of the strike was a Hezbollah facility in Beirut which stored precision missiles, according to a joint statement from Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9zvgu8v000w356mybv2oz2v@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The attack came after Israel Defense Forces spokesman Avichay Adraee advised civilians to evacuate from the Hadath neighborhood. Adraee said Hezbollah was using facilities in the area and said civilians should move 300 meters away.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9zvgu8v000x356m8tevaa5m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned Israel for attacking the area and urged the US and France to \u201ccompel Israel to immediately halt its aggressions.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9zvgu8v000y356mrdzu14ss@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Since a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect in November, the IDF has carried out a number of strikes, regularly targeting southern Lebanon. The IDF says these strikes have targeted Hezbollah militants and facilities.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9zvgu8v000z356mjj0zce3e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Strikes in the capital of Beirut have been rare however. On April 1, the IDF struck a target in the Dahieh area in Beirut. Only days before, the Israeli military had conducted another attack in Beirut.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm9zug071004q26qg2wdv274r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            <i>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/i>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli airstrike rocked southern Beirut on Sunday soon after the military issued an evacuation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}