Israeli air strike kills Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil in Beirut as tensions rise between Israel and Lebanon.
An Israeli air strike on Beirut killed Ibrahim Aqil, a top Hezbollah commander. The attack comes amid escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon.
The air strike is the third to hit the southern suburbs of Beirut since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, with the focus of the violence shifting dramatically this week from Gaza to Lebanon.Strikes blamed on Israel killed a top commander of Hezbollah, Fuad Shukr, in July, and a leader of allied Palestinian militant group Hamas, Saleh al-Aruri, in January.
Hezbollah said it targeted at least six Israeli military bases with salvos of rockets after overnight bombardment people in south Lebanon described as among the fiercest so far.The military said that overnight its jets hit infrastructure and “approximately 100 launchers” ready to be fired. Describing the attacks as a “massacre” and a possible “act of war”, Nasrallah said Israel would face “just punishment, where it expects it and where it does not”.
Hamas’s October 7 attacks that sparked the Gaza war resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, on the Israeli side, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures that include hostages killed in captivity.
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