Israeli strike on Beirut ‘targets Hezbollah commander’

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******** strike on Beirut ‘targets Hezbollah commander’

An ******** air strike has targeted a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut’s southern suburbs in what the ******** military says is retaliation for a cross-border rocket ******* three days before that ******* 12 children and teenagers.

A loud blast was heard and a plume of smoke could be seen rising above the southern suburbs – a stronghold of the Iran-aligned Lebanese armed group Hezbollah – about 7.40pm on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said.

A senior Lebanese security source said a senior Hezbollah commander had been the target of the air strike and his fate remained unclear.

Lebanon’s state-run news agency said an ******** air strike had targeted the area around Hezbollah’s Shura Council in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of the capital.

A Hezbollah official and the group’s TV station said that an ******** air strike hit the area, causing damage.

People in Beirut have been on edge for days ahead of an anticipated ******** ******* in reprisal for the rocket strike on the ********-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday that ******* the 12 youngsters in a football field in a Druze village.

Hezbollah has denied involvement in that *******.

In a statement, the ******** military said it had conducted “a targeted strike in Beirut on the commander responsible for the ******* of the children in Majdal Shams and the ******** of numerous additional ******** civilians”.

Earlier on Tuesday, more rocket ***** from south Lebanon ******* a civilian in a kibbutz in northern *******, medics said.

Shortly before the ********** in south Beirut, the ******** military said 15 projectiles had been fired across the Lebanese border within the past few hours, with impacts in parts of the Upper Galilee region.

No injuries were reported.

*******’s air force had just hit a Hezbollah observation post and “******* infrastructure” in south Lebanon, it added.

As diplomats sought to contain the fallout, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he did not believe a ****** was inevitable between Hezbollah and ******* although he remained concerned about the potential for escalation.

Hezbollah and *******, which last fought each other in a major war in 2006, have been trading ***** since the eruption of the Gaza war in October, after Hezbollah began ******* at ******** targets in what it says is solidarity with the Palestinians.

The hostilities have mostly been limited to the frontier region and both sides have previously indicated they do not seek a wider confrontation even as the conflict has prompted worry about the risk of a slide towards war.

In the latest exchanges of ***** on Tuesday, the ******** military said 10 rockets had been fired from Lebanon and one hit Kibbutz Hagoshrim, causing one casualty.

*******’s ambulance service said the 30-year-old male ***** of shrapnel wounds.

******* said it hit 10 Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon overnight and ******* one Hezbollah fighter – attacks which appeared to be in keeping with the pattern of the last nine months.

Hezbollah confirmed one of its fighters was *******.

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