 "Israel strikes Hezbollah's central command centre, weapons manufacturing unit in Beirut")
Israel on Sunday struck Hezbollah’s command centre and an underground weapons manufacturing unit in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) said that it gave evacuation orders before conducting the airstrikes.
“Earlier this morning (Sunday), the IAF (Israeli air force) conducted an intelligence-based strike on a command centre of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters and an underground weapons workshop in Beirut,” the military said in a statement.
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Lebanese state media reported two Israeli strikes on Sunday morning in Haret Hreik and one in Hadath – all in Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold of Dahiyeh.
‘Warplanes struck city 7 times’
The Israeli military conducted separate attacks in southern Lebanon that killed three prominent Hezbollah operatives.
The slain terrorists have been identified as al-Hajj Abbas Salameh, a senior member of Hezbollah’s Southern Front; Reda Abbas Ouda, a communications specialist; and Ahmed Ali Hussain, who worked in the weapons manufacturing unit.
“Warplanes struck… the city of Nabatiyeh seven times” including on an inhabited building, with rescuers still looking for survivors under the rubble, the official National News Agency said.
Impact Shorts
More Shorts“Israeli troops blew up the Tarrash neighbourhood in Mais al-Jabal,” a border village where Hezbollah has clashed with Israeli soldiers, “after booby-trapping it with highly explosive materials,” the NNA said.
The troops “bulldozed the cemetery in the village of Blida” nearby, the NNA added.
With inputs from AFP
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