Israeli military has carried out a targeted strike in Beirut, "on the commander responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams and the killing of numerous additional Israeli civilians". It said it had issued no new instructions for civil defence in Israel following the strike.Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s most senior military commander and a right-hand man to terror leader Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in the strike, which blew a large hole into the side of an eight-story apartment building in southern Beirut, the IDF said late Tuesday.The strike followed days of intensive diplomacy aimed at curbing Israel’s response to a rocket strike on a Golan Heights soccer field Saturday that killed 12 children, amid fears that Israel’s retaliation could lead to tensions snowballing into all-out war.
#BREAKING The Israeli military says it carried out a strike in Beirut in retaliation for the recent attack on Golan Heights, which it has blamed on Iran-backed Hezbollah. pic.twitter.com/IRdQyH2xX8
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The Israeli strike occurred in Dahieh, a suburb south of Beirut and a stronghold of the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group, at around 7:40 p.m. Residents reported hearing a loud blast followed by a plume of smoke seen rising over the neighborhood.Lebanon’s health ministry said three people were killed, including two children, and 74 people were wounded in the strike.In a statement, the IDF said that Shukr, also known as Hajj Mohsin, was responsible for the Saturday Majdal Shams strike, as well as other deadly attacks on Israel. Since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught in southern Israel, Shukr has been managing Hezbollah’s near-daily attacks against Israel, according to the military.
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