BEIRUT -UNS : Israel said it had struck Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut on Sunday, while officials in Gaza said they were still trying to recover bodies from the rubble after an Israeli strike that killed dozens.
At least 87 people were dead or missing following the air strike on Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza late on Saturday, the health ministry in the Palestinian territory said.
Fighter jets killed three Hezbollah commanders, including Alhaj Abbas Salameh, a senior figure in the group’s southern command, the Israeli military claimed in a statement.
Reuters witnesses saw smoke rising from Beirut’s southern suburbs, once a densely populated zone that also housed Hezbollah offices.
The Lebanese army said three soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike that “targeted” their vehicle in the country’s south.
The troops were killed on a road connecting the border village of Ain Ebel to the nearby town of Hanin, the army said.
The Lebanese official media reported 14 Israeli strikes within minutes on the border village of Khiam.
“Enemy aircraft launched 14 consecutive strikes on Khiam […] in 15 minutes,” the state-run National News Agency said.
A 41-year-old Israeli colonel was killed in combat in northern Gaza, the Israeli military said on Sunday.
Hezbollah said it had fired rockets at three military bases in northern Israel, hours after Israel said it was stepping up its strikes targeting the Iran-backed group in southern Lebanon.
