Israel has carried out a rare airstrike in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday, killing 14 people, including a senior Hezbollah leader.
The bombing, which targeted a house in the densely populated neighborhood of Dahiya, south of Beirut, and eliminated Ibrahim Aqeel, who was the leader of the Hizbullah group known as Radwan.
The statement claimed that “Ibrahim Aqil and the Radwan commanders who were eliminated today were planning Hezbollah’s ‘Conquer the Galilee’ attack, in which Hezbollah intended to infiltrate Israeli communities and murder innocent civilians.”
Earlier in the day, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported in a statement that 12 people were killed and 66 others injured, including nine in critical condition, in the Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, 37 people were killed and more than 3,250 others, including women and children, injured in a series of explosions involving wireless communication devices, including pagers and two-way radios.
There has been no Israeli comment on the blasts, which came amid an escalation in cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of Israel’s deadly war on the Gaza Strip, which has killed nearly 41,300 people, mostly women and children, following a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year.
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