Israel’s attack targetting Hezbollah leaders in Beirut killed 37, Lebanon says

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*******’s ******* targetting Hezbollah leaders in Beirut ******* 37, Lebanon says

Rescue workers in Beirut searched on Saturday for people still missing in rubble after an ******** airstrike targeting Hezbollah commanders the previous day ******* at least 37 people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital, according to authorities.

Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed group, said that 16 members including senior leader Ibrahim Aqil and another commander, Ahmed Wahbi, were among those ******* in the deadliest strike in nearly a year of conflict with *******.

*******’s army said it hit an underground gathering of Aqil and leaders of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, and had almost completely dismantled its military chain of command.

The ******* levelled a multi-story residential building in the crowded suburb and damaged a nursery next door, a security source said. Three children and seven women were among those *******, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.

Cross-border strikes continued on Saturday: ******** warplanes carried out the heaviest bombardment in 11 months of fighting across Lebanon’s south and Hezbollah claimed rocket attacks on military targets in *******’s north.The ******** army said it hit around 180 targets, destroying thousands of rocket launch barrels.

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Friday’s strike sharply escalated the conflict and inflicted another ***** on Hezbollah after two days of attacks this week in which pagers and walkie-talkies used by its members exploded.

The total ****** toll in those attacks has risen to 39, and more than 3,000 were injured.

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The attacks on communications devices were widely believed to have been carried out by *******, which has neither confirmed nor denied involvement.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati cancelled a planned trip to the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

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U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said he was worried about escalation but that the ******** ******** of a top Hezbollah leader brought justice to the group, which Washington designates terrorists.

“While the risk of escalation is real, we actually believe there is also a distinct avenue to getting to a cessation of hostilities and a durable solution that makes people on both sides of the border feel secure,” Sullivan told reporters.

******* BRACES FOR RETALIATION

Hezbollah has said it will keep fighting ******* until it agrees to a ceasefire in its war against ****** in the ************ enclave of Gaza – triggered by a ******-led rampage in southern ******* on Oct. 7.

U.S. officials say that is unlikely anytime soon. ******* wants Hezbollah to cease ***** and withdraw forces from the border region, adhering to a U.N. resolution signed with ******* in 2006, irrespective of any Gaza deal.

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Anticipating retaliation, the ******** military restricted gatherings and raised the alert level for residents of northern communities. The alert went as far south as the coastal city of Haifa, signalling ******* thought Hezbollah could strike deeper than it had since the war with ****** began.

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In southern Lebanon on Saturday, people described huge explosions that lit up the night sky and shook the ground as ******* carried out its latest strikes.

Hezbollah-aligned transport minister Ali Hamieh told reporters at the scene of Friday’s strike in the Beirut suburb that at least 23 people were still missing.

“The ******** ****** is taking the region to war,” he said.

Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who said this week ******* was launching a new phase of war on the northern border, posted on X: “The sequence of actions in the new phase will continue until our goal is achieved: the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes.”

Tens of thousands of people have left their homes on both sides of the *******-Lebanon border since Hezbollah began ******* rockets at ******* in October in sympathy with Palestinians in Gaza.

The ******** military said on Saturday it had been “striking extensively” in southern Lebanon after detecting plans by Hezbollah to target ******** communities.

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Airspace in northern ******* – from the city of Hadera north – was closed to private flights but international flights were unaffected, the military said.

With at least 70 people ******* in Lebanon this week, the conflict toll in the country since October has surpassed 740 during the worst *******-Hezbollah flare-up since a 2006 war.

The U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine-Hennis Plasschaert, said on Friday the strike in a densely populated area of Beirut was part of “an extremely dangerous cycle of ********* with devastating consequences. This must stop now”.

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