Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut, kills three
Israel’s military struck a southern suburb of Beirut early Tuesday in an attack on a Hezbollah militant, killing at least three people. The bombing came a few days after another strike there, further testing a shaky four-month ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-aligned group.
The strike targeted a Hezbollah terrorist who had recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them in planning a significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians, the Israeli military said in a joint statement with the domestic Shin Bet security agency.
It said it acted to eliminate him and removed the threat in Hezbollah’s Dahieh stronghold, without naming the target.
An Israeli strike on Beirut killed at least three people on Tuesday, Lebanon’s health ministry said after Israel announced its second strike on the country’s capital in a fragile four-month truce.
The raid in Hezbollah’s Dahieh stronghold left “three martyrs and seven wounded” according to a Lebanese health ministry toll, quoted by Lebanon’s National News Agency.
The latest strike comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned last week Israel would strike everywhere in Lebanon against any threat after rocket fire prompted it to bomb south Beirut for the first time during a fragile four-month-old truce with Hezbollah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned the country’s military would strike everywhere in Lebanon against any threat in response to the rocket fire.
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem on Saturday condemned the resumption of Israeli strikes on the city.
This aggression must end. We cannot allow this to continue, Qassem said in a televised address.
The Tehran-backed Lebanese movement denied involvement in the rocket fire that Israel said prompted it to strike Beirut.
Israel has continued to carry out strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon in the months since the ceasefire, hitting what it says are Hezbollah military targets that violated the agreement.
