Three Palestinian leaders killed in Israel air strike in Beirut

Srinagar, Sept 30: The Palestinian militant group, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Monday said that three of its leaders were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut, the first attack within city limits as Israel ballooned its attack against Lebanon and other regional allies of the 'Axis of Resistance.'

The PFLP said that the three leaders were killed in a strike the targeted Beirut's Kola district.

The strike, as the Reuters hit the top floor of an apartment building in the Lebanon's capital.

There was no immediate comment from Israel's military.

Israel's unabated frequency of attacks against Hezbollah militant group and other groups in the 'Axis of Resistance' is pushing the region to an all-out-war, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan told United Nations last week.

Israel on Sunday launched airstrikes against the militants in Yemen and dozens of Hezbollah targets throughout Lebanon after earlier killing the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

The Houthi-run health ministry said at least four people were killed and 29 wounded in airstrikes on Yemen's port of Hodeidah, which Israel said were a response to missile attacks from Yemen. In Lebanon, authorities said at least 105 people had been killed by Israeli air strikes on Sunday.

Lebanon's Health Ministry has said more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people - a fifth of the population - have fled their homes.

Israel has vowed to keep up the assault and says it wants to make its northern areas "secure again for its residents."

Israeli drones hovered over Beirut for much of Sunday, with the loud blasts of new airstrikes echoing around the Lebanese capital. Displaced families spent the night on benches at Zaitunay Bay, a string of restaurants and cafes on Beirut's waterfront.

Many of Israel's attacks have been carried out in the south of Lebanon, where the Iran-backed Hezbollah has most of its operations, or Beirut's southern suburbs.

Monday's attack in the Kola district appeared to be the first strike within Beirut's city limits. Syrians living in southern Lebanon who had fled Israeli bombardment had been sleeping under a bridge in the neighborhood for days, residents of the area said.

The United States has urged a diplomatic resolution to the conflict in Lebanon but has also authorised its military to reinforce in the region.

U.S. President Joe Biden, asked if an all-out war in the Middle East could be avoided, said “It has to be."