Israel carried out an airstrike on a southern Beirut suburb on Sunday, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff Haytham Ali Tabtabai and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild a year after their latest war.
The strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs killed five people and wounded 25 others, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.
Hezbollah did not immediately comment. Earlier, it said the strike, launched almost exactly a year after a ceasefire ended that Israel-Hezbollah war, threatened an escalation of attacks — just days before Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to visit Lebanon on his first foreign trip.
“We will continue to act forcefully to prevent any threat to the residents of the north and the state of Israel,” Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement.
(Atleast) 5 civilians in exchange for 1 terrorist, and that too despite a ceasefire, imagine if a non US aligned state did this… one wud assume with their intelligence in military prowess they could easily carry out hyper precise assassinations rather than bombing a dense neighborhood, and these are the ones that claim palestinians and muslims are barbaric and subhuman, but as they say… every accusation is a confession