At least six people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the Lebanese capital, Lebanse health officials said Thursday.
Another seven people were wounded in the attack in Beirut late Wednesday.
Israel said it conducted a precise airstrike on Beirut.
The airstrike started a fire in an apartment in a multistory building in the residential Bashoura district, not far from the United Nations headquarters, the prime minister’s office and parliament.
The strike reportedly targeted a center of the group’s health unit.
There was no warning issued ahead of the strike.
Residents reported a sulfur-like smell following the attack, and Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency accused Israel of using internationally banned phosphorous bombs. Human rights groups have in the past accused Israel of using white phosphorus incendiary shells on towns and villages in conflict-hit southern Lebanon.
