Congregation T'chiyah Rabbi Alana Alpert said that everyone deserves to walk safely down the streets of our neighborhoods and through the doors of our holy spaces. Anytime someone blames or conflates all Jewish people including kids at their school with the state or government of Israel, that is dangerous and antisemitic, and it leads directly to violence against us.
Israeli strike early on Friday hit a car in Jnah, a coastal neighbourhood in southwestern Beirut, and killed one person, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said. An Israeli strike also hit an apartment in the Nabaa neighborhood, home to a sizable Armenian community, leaving it engulfed in flames, with no casualties immediately reported. It was the first time this area has been struck in this conflict or during the 2024 war between Hezbollah and Israel.
Tonight, Hezbollah launched over a hundred rockets across the border into northern Israel. This is the largest barrage that we have seen since they got involved in the war. I just spoke with a senior IDF official who says the Israelis, following this rocket fire, are now striking Hezbollah positions in Lebanon.
Al-Qard Al-Hassan, a quasi-banking institution that offers interest-free loans to people, is one of the many charity organisations run by Hezbollah, including schools, hospitals and low-price grocery stores.
The Israeli military has ordered the entire population of Beirut's southern suburbs to evacuate, as it continued to bomb Lebanon and Iran, while Tehran launched retaliatory strikes against Israel and US bases across the region. An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson told all residents of Beirut's southern suburbs more than 500,000 people to save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately, before Israel launched airstrikes on what he described as Hezbollah targets.
Smotrich warned that the Dahiyeh area would soon look like Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza that has been decimated in Israel's genocidal war against Palestinians in the enclave. The southern suburbs will become like Khan Younis, the Israeli minister said.
Abu Yehya, a 41-year-old day labourer, described the chaos: 'The kids were terrified, they were screaming. It was exactly like the last time, we knew from the very first moment what it was. War is war.' He and his sons fled their home after a dozen blasts struck their neighborhood, walking for four hours through Beirut's streets to reach safety downtown.
