The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had carried out a “targeted strike” on Beirut, where a security source reported an Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a Hezbollah stronghold.
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“The Israeli army carried out a targeted strike in Beirut,” said a military statement, without specifying the nature of the strike or the means used.
“There is currently no change in the directives (…) of the Home Front Command” (Israeli passive defense), the army added.
Another source close to Hezbollah said that the head of its elite unit had been killed.
This is the third strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut claimed or attributed to Israel since on October 8, Hezbollah opened the southern Lebanese front against Israel, “in support” of the Palestinian Hamas, in its war against Israel in the Gaza Strip.
“Israel carried out an airstrike against the southern suburbs of Beirut near the Al-Qaem mosque,” the source told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Hezbollah’s al-Manar channel broadcast live footage from the scene of the attack, showing ambulances rushing to the scene of the strike and carrying wounded people on stretchers.
The official Lebanese news agency (ANI) reported “an enemy raid targeting an apartment in a residential building in the Al-Jamous area, in the southern suburbs” of Beirut.
