BEIRUT - At least six people were killed and 11 wounded in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in central Beirut on Thursday, Lebanon’s health ministry said.
The airstrike started 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. Ambulances rushed to the scene.
Israeli strikes in central Beirut are rare. The attack, which occurred in the early hours on Thursday morning, is the first Israeli strike to hit the centre of Lebanon's capital since the war between Lebanon and Israel in 2006.
