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Reuters said that the Hezbollah leader targeted in the Israeli attack survived.
The Israel Broadcasting Corporation said that Tel Aviv informed Washington before carrying out the assassination attempt in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Iranian embassy in Lebanon said: We strongly condemned the Israeli aggression. it is “sinful and cowardly”.
AL-Mayadeen reported that some news agencies are circulating Israeli rumors and deliberate misinformative about the identity of the Israeli target in south Beirut. Such information is not credible, and Hezbollah issued no statement.
Lebanon’s state news agency said the Israeli raid on Beirut’s southern suburb was carried out with a drone that fired three rockets. It said the strike had led to the collapse of two floors of a building targeted by the Israeli strike.
Al-Jazeera said that the Israeli raid on the southern suburbs of Beirut resulted in the injury of a number of civilians.
Al-Arabic TV, Axios and other news agencies said that the Israeli strike on the southern suburb of Beirut targeted a senior leader of Hezbollah, Fuad Shukr.
Footage broadcast on local platforms showed smoke rising after an explosion shook the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
An Israeli drone strike targeted the Haret Hreik area in Beirut’s southern suburbs, news agencies reported.
According to the Lebanese news agency, the Israeli raid targeted the vicinity of Hezbollah Shura Council in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Reuters quoted a security source as saying that “the strike on the southern suburb of Beirut targeted a senior leader in Hezbollah and his fate is unknown.”
An Israeli airstrike hit the southern suburbs of the city of Beirut.
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Footage broadcast on local platforms showed smoke rising after an explosion shook the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
The Lebanese capital has been in a state of tension for days in anticipation of an expected Israeli response to an attack on the occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 children in the village of Majdal Shams.
Israel and the United States blamed Hezbollah, which the party denied.
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Madjal Shamas is an occupied Syrian town, comprised mostly of Syrian Druze, that continues to reject the Israeli occupation.
This is a developing story.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
