Six people were killed and fifteen others wounded, two of them seriously, in the Israeli raid carried out shortly before 3pm on Tuesday on Ghobeiri, in the southern suburb of Beirut, according to an initial assessment by the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
It was still unclear an hour after the strike who was the “senior Hezbollah official” targeted in the apartment building, whose top two floors had collapsed, while Israeli army radio, quoted by pan-Arab media, indicated that it was uncertain whether the strike had achieved its objectives.
The Israeli army had previously indicated that the target was a “senior Hezbollah official in charge of the group’s ‘missile unit’”.
According to Reuters, quoting two Lebanese security sources, the attack targeted Ibrahim Kobayssi, reportedly the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit.
Earlier, al-Hadath TV quoted “Israeli reports”, as saying that the target was Talal Hamiyeh, one of the commanders of Hezbollah elite force, al-Radwane , who was appointed following the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil, killed on Friday in an Israeli raid on Beirut’s southern suburbs. However, the Israeli army radio denied the reports.
Hezbollah neither confirmed nor denied this information.
The raid was immediately confirmed by the Israeli army, which described it as a “targeted strike” and said that further details would be provided later.
An Israeli raid, the third in less than a week, was carried out shortly before 3pm on Beirut’s southern suburbs, in the Ghobeiri sector, targeting a senior Hezbollah commander.
The target is reportedly Talal Hamiyeh, who was recently appointed as one of the commanders of Hezbollah’s al-Radwan elite unit, replacing Ibrahim Aqil, who was killed in an Israeli attack on the southern suburb of Beirut five days ago.
According to preliminary information, an Israeli drone struck an apartment building, destroying the fourth and fifth floors.
The raid was confirmed by the Israeli army, which described it as a “targeted strike” and said further details would be provided later.
Israeli Raid on the Area of Ghobeiry in Beirut’s Southern Suburb, the Third in Less Than a Week pic.twitter.com/gQRHDzPqdZ
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