BEIRUT (AP) — Israel said it targeted a Hezbollah commander in a rare strike Tuesday on Beirut that killed at least one woman and wounded dozens of people in escalating hostilities with the Lebanese militant group.
BEIRUT — Israel said it targeted a Hezbollah commander in a rare strike Tuesday on Beirut that killed at least one woman and wounded dozens of people in escalating hostilities with the Lebanese militant group.
The two sides have been exchanging near-daily strikes for the past 10 months against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, but had previously kept the conflict at a low level that would not escalate into full-on war. “The Israeli enemy has committed a great stupid act in size, timing and circumstances by targeting an entirely civilian area,” Hezbollah official Ali Ammar told Al-Manar TV."The Israeli enemy will pay a price for this sooner or later.”
The airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik - a crowded urban neighborhood where Hezbollah has political and security operations but which is also full of small shops and apartment buildings - damaged several buildings. “Then people went down on the streets," he said. “Everyone has family. They went to check on them. It was a lot of destruction.” He spoke on condition of anonymity out of concerns about his security at a tense moment.
Talal Hatoum, a local official with the Shiite Amal Movement, Hezbollah’s key political ally in Lebanon, said that Tuesday's attack in the southern suburbs marked a shift in the rules of engagement in the conflict because it caused a significant number of civilian casualties.
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