The airstrike follows a deadly week of attacks that have intensified nearly a year of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
People and members of the military inspect the site of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday.BEIRUT — The Israeli military launched an airstrike in a suburb of Lebanon's capital on Friday, after a deadly week of attacks in the Middle Eastern country that have intensified nearly a year of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
The strike killed at least nine people and wounded almost 60 others, The Associated Press reported, citing Lebanese health authorities.the strike targeted and killed Ibrahim Akil, the head of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, as well as other senior Hezbollah officials. Hezbollah has not publicly commented.
The strike came hours after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets, and the two sides traded dozens of missiles across the Israeli-Lebanese border overnight., which killed more than 32 people and wounded thousands more across Lebanon and in parts of Syria this week. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday vowed to retaliate against Israel.
Israel has not publicly commented on the electronic device attacks. But a U.S. official, who was not authorized to speak to reporters,Lebanon’s national news agency said initial reports showed an airstrike hit a building near the al-Qaim complex, used for religious gatherings in Dahiyeh district south of Beirut.Vincent Ni is the Asia Editor at NPR, where he leads a team of Asia-based correspondents whose reporting spans from Afghanistan to Japan, and across all NPR platforms.
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