Hezbollah leaders were among those killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb, Israel’s military said Saturday, as Lebanon raised the death toll from the attack to 37.
Emergency workers clear the rubble at the site of Friday's Israel i strike in Beirut 's southern suburbs, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. Hezbollah leaders were among those killed in an Israel i airstrike on a Beirut suburb , Israel ’s military said Saturday, as Lebanon raised the death toll from the attack to 37, including women and children.
Firas Abiad told reporters that the dead included seven women and three children. He said another 68 people were wounded of whom 15 remained in hospital, adding that search and rescue operations were still ongoing, with the number of casualties likely to rise. Wahbi was described as a commander who played major roles within Hezbollah for decades and was imprisoned in an Israeli jail in south Lebanon in 1984. Hezbollah said he was one of the “field commanders” of a 1997 ambush in southern Lebanon that left 12 Israeli troops dead.
The Lebanese health minister said Saturday hospitals across the country were filled with the wounded.
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