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A building in Beirut's southern suburbs collapsed in a gigantic cloud of smoke and dust, an AFP photographer reported, as two strikes attributed to Israel hit the Hezbollah bastion on Friday. Later in the morning,

An airstrike hit the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs on Friday, sending plumes of gray smoke into the sky after the Israeli military called for people to evacuate, AFPTV images showed. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said an Israeli drone fired two missiles at the Beirut suburb of Ghobeiry before the air force carried out a "very heavy" strike that leveled a building near municipal offices.

At least six people died and 15 others were injured when Israeli jets struck a building to the south of Beirut in the early hours of Wednesday, eyewitnesses reported. Images showed that several floors of the building in the Aley district were severely damaged in the pre-dawn bombing raid.