Israel says its air power has attacked Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut and an underground workshop for the manufacturing of weapons.
In a press release on Sunday, the Israeli army mentioned its fighter jets killed three Hezbollah commanders together with Alhaj Abbas Salameh, a senior determine within the group’s southern command, Radja Abbas Awache, a communications skilled, and Ahmad Ali Hussein, who it mentioned was liable for strategic weapons growth.
It was not clear if the three had been killed within the assault on the headquarters or in separate actions.
Hezbollah made no instant remark.
Israel’s army mentioned on Saturday it had destroyed tunnel shafts and underground infrastructure in southern Lebanon and killed Hezbollah’s deputy commander of the Bint Jbeil space on Friday.
Early on Sunday, Reuters witnesses noticed smoke rising from Beirut’s suburbs, nevertheless it was not clear if this was a results of the identical strike.
Cross-border preventing between Israel and Hezbollah erupted a yr in the past when the Iranian-backed group started launching rockets in help of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Since October 2023, tens of hundreds have been displaced and greater than 2400 folks have been killed in Lebanon, most of them previously month, based on Lebanon’s well being ministry, whereas 59 folks have been killed in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights, based on Israeli authorities.
