Israeli attack on an apartment block in central Beirut kills six people | Israel attacks Lebanon news

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, at least six people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Beirut.

Eleven more people were injured in the attack in Beirut late on Wednesday, the ministry said.

The attack sparked a fire in an apartment in a multi-story building in the residential Bashoura district, not far from the United Nations headquarters, the prime minister’s office and parliament.

Local residents reported a sulfur-like smell after the attack, and Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) accused Israel of using internationally banned phosphorus bombs.

Human rights groups have in the past accused Israel of using incendiary grenades containing white phosphorus on towns and villages in conflict-hit southern Lebanon.

NNA reported that a total of 17 nighttime airstrikes had taken place in Beirut by dawn on Thursday.

On Tuesday, Israel launched ground strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon while continuing to carry out attacks on Gaza, killing dozens of people, including children, in the last two days.

According to the Israeli military, eight soldiers died in fighting in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.