The Israeli military said it had conducted a “targeted strike” in Lebanon’s capital that has killed three people and wounded 17 others so far.
Ibrahim Aqil has $US7 million bounty on his headTwo residential buildings collapsed in the strike, civil defence officials sayThe Israeli military targeted a top Hezbollah military commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday, two security sources in Lebanon said, sharply escalating the year-long conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed group.
Lebanon’s civil defence said its rescue teams were searching for missing people under the rubble after two residential buildings collapsed. It marks the second time in less than two months that Israel has targeted a top Hezbollah military commander in Beirut. In July, an Israeli airstrikeAqil has a $US7 million bounty on his head from the United States over his link to the deadly bombing of Marines in Lebanon in 1983, according to the US State Department website.Reuters witnesses heard jet noise over Beirut around the time of the attack, and a cloud of smoke could be seen rising from the area of the strike.
The year-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is the worst since they fought a war in 2006. Tens of thousands have had to leave homes on both sides of the border.
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