Israel bombs Beirut days after ceasefire: striking back at Hezbollah, or breaking the truce?
Israeli jets hit Beirut's southern suburb (Dahiyeh) — the first strike on the capital since a US-brokered truce. Israel says it answered Hezbollah rocket fire; Lebanon, Iran and Hezbollah call it a ceasefire violation.
The summary above is a neutral framing. Below, each side reports the same story in its own words — judge for yourself.
Israel says it struck Hezbollah targets in Beirut's Dahiyeh in response to rockets fired at northern Israel, vowing to keep hitting the group until it disarms and pulls back.
Iranian and Lebanese media frame the attack as a flagrant violation of the US-brokered truce. As they tell it, Israeli jets bombed a densely populated residential suburb of Beirut, killing and wounding civilians while Western governments stay silent. In their account it is Israel — not Hezbollah — that is breaking the ceasefire and acting as the aggressor, and they report Tehran's warning that the 'Zionist regime' will face a 'painful response' for the strike.
