By Jerald Jimenez
29 Sep 2024, 09:33 AM EDT
Israel launched a new airstrike this Sunday in the southern suburbs of Beirut, in Lebanon, just a day after confirming the death of the leader of the Shiite group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, in a bombing on Friday in the Lebanese capital.
In a brief statement, Israeli forces reported that “the Army carried out a precise attack in the Dahye area of Beirut. More details will follow.” The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported that the attack in the Ghobeiry area targeted a person in a residential apartment.
Another senior official of the Shiite group, Nabil Qaouk, was hit last night in an attack against Dahye, a Hezbollah stronghold and the target of almost daily Israeli bombings since the beginning of the week.
Hezbollah’s top leader was assassinated
On Friday night, another Israeli attack in Dahye resulted in the death of Hassan Nasrallah, who had led the group for three decades. This Sunday, Hezbollah confirmed the death of its prominent commander Ali Karaki in the same attack.
“The Islamic Resistance brings to the people of the resistance and the martyrs the great jihadist leader Hajj Ali Karaki alias Abu al Fadl, who was martyred with a group of his brother fighters in the criminal Zionist raid on Haret Hreik,” the group declared in a release. Karaki had survived another airstrike in the same area days earlier.
“In recent hours, Army aircraft attacked terrorist targets in Lebanon, including rocket launchers directed at Israeli territory, weapons warehouses and other infrastructure,” the Israeli Armed Forces reported in a statement.
The Israeli military insisted that the operations seek to “degrade and dismantle Hezbollah’s capabilities” in the country.
With information from EFE