Hezbollah confirmed the death of one of its senior commanders, Fuad Shukr, in an Israeli airstrike, an attack that killed five other people, including children.
Scouts carry the coffins of two children, Hassan and Amira Muhammed Fadallah, during their funeral a day after they were killed in an Israeli strike on a building in Beirut's southern suburbs, on July 31, 2024.
The Israeli military, in a statement Tuesday, called Shukr a senior military commander and held him responsible for a strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday that killed 12 children at a soccer field. Hezbollah denied carrying out that attack.The location of Tuesday’s strike — less than three miles from central Beirut — and its timing, as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah are spiking, led to fears of more escalation and worry that Lebanon would be plunged into war.
During an emergency cabinet session Wednesday, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the Israeli strike on Shukr as well as the killing, hours later in Iran, of Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader. The children’s aunt, Zainab Sultani, said Israel and the United States were “responsible for what happened.” She had learned that the children were in peril from the family WhatsApp group, when her sister asked for help digging them out of the rubble. The children’s father, Mohamad, and their elder brother, Ali, were still hospitalized.
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