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An echo of the height of the Israeli bombardments last year
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Residents coming back to their homes to take stock of the damage after the middle of the night Israeli strike on this southern suburb of Beirut
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The bomb killed at least four people, including the main target, a senior Hezbollah official
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But ordinary residents feel there in the crosshairs. My wife, grandchildren and I were asleep
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And we woke up thinking the building had collapsed. Half of it was already destroyed
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We just felt the strike and started running. We're afraid because Israel is not targeting just one person
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We're all being targeted in this country, from youngest to oldest. People living in the area got no advance warning of the bombing
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It was the second Israeli attack on South Beirut in less than a week
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despite the ceasefire that Israel and Lebanon signed last November. Lebanese President Josef Aon condemned the attack, calling it a dangerous warning of Israel's intentions against Lebanon
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He called on international allies to help support the country's sovereignty. Israel justified the strike, saying it targeted a Hezbollah operative
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helping Hamas to plan an imminent attack on Israeli citizens. The terrorist paused a real and immediate threat, what we called, a ticking bomb
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Therefore, we had to eliminate the threat. Israel will continue to remove any threat to our citizens
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The Israeli Foreign Minister added that Lebanon must take action to uproot terrorist organizations acting within its borders against Israel
