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Israel-Lebanon - latest: Six dead in strike on Beirut that Israeli military says killed Hezbollah commander [1]

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Date: 2024-09-24 17:05:19+00:00

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A Hezbollah commander has been killed in an airstrike on Beirut, Israel has claimed.

The commander was named by the Israeli military as Ibrahim Qubaisi, a leading figure in Hezbollah’s rocket division.

Lebanese security sources also said Qubaisi was killed in a strike on Beirut, according to Reuters news agency

Six people were killed and 15 injured in the strike, according to the Lebanese health ministry. It hit the typically-busy southern Dahiyeh district of the capital.

Israeli forces confirmed that a Hezbollah commander had been a target of the strike, but have not said whether their target was killed.

It is the second consecutive day that Israel has struck the Hezbollah-controlled area of the capital, as it turns its focus north.

It comes after Lebanese authorities said the death toll has reached 558 including 50 children since Israel launched fresh strikes on Monday, according to the country’s health minister.

A fresh wave of strikes began on Tuesday, after Monday saw the deadliest day of strikes in Lebanon in nearly two decades of the conflict.

Thousands of residents were pictured fleeing southern Lebanon in loaded cars, vans and trucks. Highways north were gridlocked.

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