Hezbollah confirms commander killed in Israeli strike

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Hezbollah confirms commander ******* in ******** strike

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has confirmed ******* ******* a top commander after a rare strike in Beirut.

The Iran-backed group said earlier that Fouad Shukur was in the building during the ******* on Tuesday and they were searching for him in the rubble to determine his fate.

Hezbollah’s announcement came after an overnight strike in Tehran that ******* ****** leader Ismail Haniyeh, which ****** and Iran blamed on *******.

******* said late Tuesday it had ******* Shukur, who it said was behind the weekend rocket ******* in the ********-occupied Golan Heights that ******* 12 youths.

The ******* States also blames Shukur for staging and planning a ******** of a Marine Corps barrack in Lebanon in 1983 that ******* 241 ********* service members.

The Lebanese health ministry said at least five civilians – two children and three women – ***** in the strike in a busy neighbourhood where Hezbollah has political and security operations.

******* and Hezbollah have exchanged ***** since Octobert 8, a day after ****** attacked southern ******* and sparked the *******-****** war in Gaza.

Though Hezbollah issued a rare denial of involvement in the rocket ******* Saturday in the town of Majdal Shams, ******* holds the militant group responsible.

“Hezbollah crossed a red line,” ******** Defence Minister Yoav Gallant posted on X after Tuesday’s strike.

The two sides have exchanged near-daily strikes for the past 10 months against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, but they have previously kept the conflict at a low level that was unlikely to escalate into full-on war.

Lebanon’s public health ministry said Tuesday’s strike in a southern suburb of Beirut wounded 74 people, some of them seriously.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported the strike was carried out with a drone that launched three rockets.

“The ******** ****** has committed a great ******* act in size, timing and circumstances by targeting an entirely civilian area,” Hezbollah official Ali Ammar told Al-Manar TV.

“The ******** ****** will pay a price for this sooner or later.”

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the ******** *******, saying it hit a few metres from one of the largest hospitals in the capital.

The office of ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not immediately release a statement, but minutes after the strike sent a photo of the prime minister with his national security adviser and other officials.

The last time ******* targeted Beirut was in January, when an air strike ******* a top ****** official, Saleh Arouri.

******* had been expected to retaliate for the strike in Majdal Shams, but diplomats had said they expected the response to stay within the boundaries of the ongoing low-level conflict between Hezbollah and *******.

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