An Israeli airstrike has flattened a building near one of Beirut’s busiest traffic junctions, shaking the Lebanese capital as Israel kept up its intensified bombardment of areas of the city, Reuters reports.

One of several airstrikes, the attack struck near the Tayouneh junction in an area where the southern suburbs meet other parts of the city, a more central target than most that Israel has hit.

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Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on a building in Tayouneh neighborhood, near a central park, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut, Lebanon on November 15. — Reuters
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on a building in Tayouneh neighborhood, near a central park, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut, Lebanon on November 15. — Reuters

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