The Public Health Emergency Operations Center reports that 45 people were killed in the attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs last Friday. In this setting, forensic professionals began their work on Sunday to identify the bodies.
While rubble removal continues for the third day in a row, competent security agencies have cooperated with the General Directorate of Internal Security Forces to collect samples from the bodies of unidentified victims in hospitals so that DNA tests can be performed to identify them.
On Friday, Israeli airplanes unleashed four missiles against an apartment complex in the southern suburb of Beirut, a densely populated region and a Hezbollah stronghold.
The Israeli army later stated that the hit killed Ibrahim Aqil, a senior Hezbollah commander, as well as other members of its elite Radwan forces. Aqil was purportedly wanted by the United States for his claimed involvement in the 1983 bombing of a US embassy.
This is Israel’s third bombing of Dahye since the cross-border conflict between Israel and Hezbollah began on October 8.
