by Middle East Eye News Staff at Middle East Eye
Israel‘s military said it carried out a strike targeting a Hezbollah commander in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, in response to a deadly attack on the occupied Golan Heights over the weekend.
The fate of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, who was the alleged target of the strike, is unclear at the time of writing, with Reuters reporting that he had survived and Al Arabiya and a local Lebanese media outlet reporting that he was killed in the strike. MEE could not immediately independently verify the casualties from the strike.
At least one woman and several people were wounded by the strike, Lebanese state media reported.
Footage posted on social media showed large plumes of smoke rising above a collapsed residential building in the capital’s southern Haret Hreik neighbourhood, with several injured people receiving help and medical assistance from passersby.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the strike targeted an area near Hezbollah’s Shura Council…
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