IDF targets Beirut suburb in retaliation for attack that killed 12 in the Golan Heights

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IDF targets Beirut suburb in retaliation for ******* that ******* 12 in the Golan Heights

Security forces and healthcare teams arrive at the site after an ********** caused by an ******** airstrike, where a drone fired three missiles in the Dahieh area of Beirut., the capital of Lebanon, on July 30, 2024.

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The ******** military said on Tuesday it had carried out an airstrike in a suburb of southern Beirut, targeting a commander they say was in charge of an ******* on ********-controlled 

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 that ******* 12 young people last week.

“The IDF targeted in Beirut the commander responsible for the ******* of the children in 

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,” the IDF said in a statement Tuesday.

Reuters reported the commander ******* was targeting had survived, citing two senior security sources. NBC News was not able to confirm the report.

Militants in Lebanon and ******* have been trading ***** since ******’ Oct. 7 ******* ******* on ******* and the start of the war in Gaza, raising fears that the fighting will spiral into a regional conflict.

Bystanders surround vehicles covered in debris near the site of an ******** military strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on July 30, 2024. 

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Al Manar, a satellite television station run by Hezbollah, the group ******* blames for a strike on the town of Majdal Shams last week, reported that ******* had “launched an aerial aggression that targeted the southern suburb of Beirut.”

“Local sources reported that the raid in the Haret Hreik area was carried out by a drone and 3 missiles were fired,” the report added.

The television station also said that a building targeted by ******* in the Haret Hreik area, a Hezbollah stronghold, had collapsed.

Al Manar reported that two people had been ******* in the strike, adding that “Ambulances have transported a number of casualties to the hospital.”

A view of the destroyed building as security forces and health care crew arrive in the site after an ********** occurred in the Dahieh area of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on July 30, 2024.

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Photographs from the area also showed cars crushed and covered with rubble.

Saturday’s strike on Majdal Shams ******* at least 12, mostly children and teenagers belonging to the ********* 

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 community.

Hezbollah has denied responsibility for the *******. In a series of statements issued Saturday, Hezbollah did say it had struck nearby military targets in the Golan Heights.

In one statement, it claimed to have used a Falaq-1 rocket, the same munition ******* says hit the soccer field. However, the timings of the Hezbollah statements do not neatly align with the strike. Hezbollah said the Falaq-1 rocket was fired at 5:20 p.m. local time, while the IDF says Majdal Shams was hit at 6:18 p.m.

The 

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 military said the ******* on Majdal Shams, which is on the border with Lebanon, was the deadliest strike on civilians in ******** territory since Oct. 7. 

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 rushed back to Tel Aviv from the ******* States as outrage built in *******.

“******* is approaching the moment of an all-out war against Hezbollah,” the ******** military said at the time. “The IDF is prepared and ready to protect *******’s security.”

In January, an ******** airstrike on Beirut ******* Saleh Arouri, a top ****** official. That strike was the first time ******* had hit Beirut since the 34-day war between ******* and Hezbollah in 2006.

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