BEIRUT: Israel’s military claimed it killed Hezbollah’s most senior commander in an airstrike on Beirut on Tuesday, in retaliation for a cross-border ...
People gather near a site hit by what security sources said was a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon - REUTERSpix: Israel’s military claimed it killed Hezbollah’s most senior commander in an airstrike on Beirut on Tuesday, in retaliation for a cross-border rocket attack that killed 12 youngsters three days ago which it blamed on the Lebanese armed group.
A senior security source from another country in the region confirmed Shukr had died of wounds sustained in the strike. Lebanon’s Al Manar TV cited the Lebanese health ministry as reporting 74 people injured along with three killed in the attack around Hezbollah’s Shura Council, a decision-making body, in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood.
UN Special Coordinator Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert called for calm to prevail amid escalating tensions and called on Israel and Lebanon to explore all diplomatic avenues to end hostilities.Tuesday’s strike on Beirut prompted widespread condemnation by Lebanese officials and Hezbollah’s regional allies including Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, Syria and Iran, which backs all three of the groups.
Israeli media reported that depending on the Hezbollah reaction, the military considered the Beirut strike as concluding the response to the Golan Heights attack. “Hopefully any response will be proportionate and will not be more than that, so that this wave of killing, hitting and shelling will stop,“ he said.
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