Ceasefire in war between Hezbollah, Israel began on April 17, but combat has largely not stopped in southern Lebanon
NABATIEH:
Israel pummelled southern Lebanon on Thursday, state media and AFP correspondents said, a day after it targeted a Hezbollah commander in its first strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs since a truce sought to end weeks of fighting.
The Israeli army said Thursday that the strike on the southern suburbs killed “the Commander of Hezbollah’s ‘Radwan Force’ Unit”, an elite unit within the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.
A ceasefire in the war between Hezbollah and Israel began on April 17, but combat has largely not stopped in southern Lebanon.
Wednesday’s strike near the capital, however, came as a shock in Lebanon.
AFP photographs taken in the southern suburbs showed the top floors of a residential building totally destroyed, and rescuers searching through the rubble on Thursday morning.
Hezbollah has not retaliated for the attack.
Lebanese state media reported Israeli strikes across a number of southern towns and villages, and the Israeli army issued fresh evacuation warnings to three villages north of the Litani River.
