By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-04-01 02:53:18 | Updated at 2025-04-02 12:00:32
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Israel’s military said Tuesday it carried out a strike on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut targeting a Hezbollah operative, the second such strike since a November ceasefire.
The latest strike comes after rocket fire prompted Israel to bomb southern Beirut last week for the first time during a fragile four-month-old truce with the Tehran-backed Lebanese movement.
“The strike targeted a Hezbollah terrorist,” the Israeli military said in a joint statement with the domestic Shin Bet security agency.
The top two floors of a multi-storey building were destroyed by the strike in Hezbollah’s Dahieh stronghold, an Agence France-Presse photographer at the scene said, while panicked residents poured out of their homes.
At least three people were wounded and being helped by rescuers, the photographer said.
